20 June 2023

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Recording from openSUSE conference will be uploaded at the end of the month, about 20 people attended the presentation
Linux Distributions Collaboration on the Mainframe at Devconf.cz 2023 with about 15 participants, and good discussions https://devconfcz2023.sched.com/event/1MYmY
David suggested coming up with list of reasons why the mainframe is a compelling application developer target - why is it worth their effort? May seem like a niche target, but it has a huge impact. Also, technically interesting.

Vignesh shared that DragonflyDB is planning to start building for s390x, they shared that their vertically scaled application is a good fit for the mainframe
Vignesh himself had a technical interest in porting applications for startups
Lyz had a talk accepted to All Things Open and this may be a good slide to include

OMP CFP is open, Lyz & Sarah will brainstorm some ideas for a presentation https://www.openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-summit-cfp
openSUSE Leap 15.5 released, Sarah to do some release blogging
Debian 12 (bookworm) released with continued s390x support: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/s390x/release-notes/
David is going to a Tezos/OCaml × Tezos meetup in NYC tonight to maintain engagement with that community
Dan mentioned some issues with btrfs-progs which have now been fixed upstream: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/639

16 May 2023

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AlmaLinux 9 beta came out with s390x support: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-beta-now-available/
Fedora 36 release is on 10 May
openSUSE conference coming up in Nürnberg, Germany and Sarah is giving her Collaboration instead of Competition talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3700
Sarah launched a discussion about additional hardware possibilities, beyond what RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu have proposed and are collaborating with IBM on, community input from what the distros are seeing

If the hardware has $x feature, it may be interesting to see $y business cases realized
Do new HMCs have optical drives for DVD-based installs? Interesting question for installation / maintenance from the distros.

Remote desktop xrdp client isn’t building on openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/xrdp/standard/s390x (the server is fine, which is the more common use case)

Ulrich checked - upstream claims to support it, a patch went in in March 2021
FYI Fedora patch: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xrdp/blob/rawhide/f/xrdp-0.9.16-arch.patch

Open Mainframe Project CFP: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/program/cfp/

Sarah and Lyz will work together on a proposal about the WG and progress being made, due June 10
If accepted, Lyz will present in person in Philadelphia

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