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14 May 2024

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Elizabeth presented at the Open Source Summit specifically about the working group with the angle of establishing niche WGs to help stem feelings of isolation by maintainers. But she noted that most of the Q&A was about open source development on the mainframe - there's an appetite for mainframe in the open source community!
Daniel shared that Fedora 40 is out, but the cloud images aren’t booting for s390x since the switch to kiwi from imagefactory to produce them, but they’re looking into it
Sarah shared that tests for openSUSE Leap for release in the summer are passing and doing well
Sarah went to IBM Z Symposium 2024 got a feature request from a client about running the same binaries on Linux and z/OS, but currently users have to use separate compilers and the IBM proprietary one is the only one that works for z/OS

Ulrich shared that there’s work in upstream LLVM to work as a compiler on z/OS, so in the future it may be possible to use it to cross-compile it for both operating systems, but this is not a supported path. A lot of work is happening in the LLVM code repositories on GitHub for those who are curious.

At the symposium Sarah also spoke to some IBMers about access to an IBM z16, but it’s not available publicly yet. Elizabeth is working on the case internally due to it being a popular request, particularly due to the AI capabilities they wish to leverage.
Sarah shared that she’s going to participate in the upcoming openSUSE conference, no talk on the schedule, but she’ll take advantage of a lightning talk spot if it’s available
Elizabeth met with folks from Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux at the Texas Linux Fest and subsequently the IBM LinuxONE Open Source Software Cloud granted a couple VMs to AlmaLinux and facilitated the migration of Rocky Linux to the KVM environment. Sarah chimed in with some recommendations regarding resources for successful, fast builds on the platform, and Elizabeth took an action item to remind them both about this WG if they run into any challenges.

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Sarah just spoke at Grazer Linuxtage 2024, how’d it go? Went well!
Elizabeth presenting on the WG at the Open Source Summit: https://ossna2024.sched.com/event/1aK2u
openSUSE 15.6 beta is looking good and on track for release (July-ish)
Fedora 40 is on track for a release (next week or so)
GTK problem noted previously with colors couldn’t be replicated on openSUSE, but it may be some other library or version mismatch, Elizabeth will follow up with Gayathri about what the plan is (drop support in Debian?)
Ubuntu has .NET packages for the upcoming 24.04 release via Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mateus-morais/+archive/ubuntu/dotnet8.0.102-s390x Elizabeth will follow up with Frank about status and whether they're doing any announcement around it

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