8 August 2023

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Talk accepted at OMP Summit in Las Vegas, any additions? https://openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-summit-las-vegas/
Sarah met Berthold noted he might reach out to Lyz (hasn’t yet) about more collaboration with the WG? https://www.gse.org/german-workinggroups/svmxd-z-vm-kvm-and-linux-on-ibm-zsystems-linuxone/
Fedora 38 - Neovim LuaJIT support not activated for s390x - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222911 - question to IBM, are there any plans to further support on this?

Lyz will look into where the mentorship in the summer of 2022 went with Neale F. from AlmaLinux went, but the PR in question may be related to this and the issue may be acceptance upstream
There were some bounties, and patches have been accepted upstream over time, Ulrich and David shared that the maintainer wasn’t always willing to accept them, but Ulrich will also look into IBM efforts

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259569
They need access to an s390x system, which is something that IBM can support through the open source cloud, shared https://www.ibm.com/community/z/open-source/virtual-machines-request/
Discussion as to who precisely would run this (WebKit project infrastructure team? Someone atRed at Red Hat?), but Daniel will follow up on this
https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/EarlyWarningSystem (docs) and https://ews-build.webkit.org (actual CI instance)

Gayathri Berli just joined, and she will be getting familiar with the Debian community, working with Vishwa, Dipak is still involved but externally from IBM

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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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