Creating a Sustainable OS Ecosystem for Mainframe through the Open Mainframe Project
summary
Open Mainframe Project coordinates concrete outcomes: zoe ships REST APIs, a CLI and web app and records 20,000 commits from 200 committers all time; five projects launch in 2019 and six in 2020; zoe reports 30+ conformant offerings. A COBOL course repository scores ~1,700 GitHub stars and 300 forks and a “calling all cobol programmers” list signs up ~1,700 volunteers. The project hosts 15 projects, nearly 40 member organizations, mentorship growth of 40–60% year over year, and active infrastructure that other vendors rebase onto.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10From the heritage of the model 704 to the modern mainframe (IBM z15)
- 3:09Early collaboration drives open source
- 5:07Code Club (Sandwich)
- 6:08Answer: Projects with sustainable ecosystems
- 6:46Sustainability is about longevity
- 7:19Open Source on Mainframe - Ecosystem Challenges
- 11:03Eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe
- 11:36Creating spaces for mainframe community open source collaboration
- 12:41Connecting z/OS to enterprise devops with Zowe
- 20:30Bringing together the COBOL community
- 25:09Bringing next generation through open source
- 27:14Sustained mainframe support in the broad open source community through the supported Projects program
- 28:49Telling the "mainframer" story
- 30:19Bringing together the open source and mainframe conversation
- 31:46How to participate in Open Mainframe Project
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