10 Oktober 2023

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Elizabeth has got less experience with forums. We need notifications about new threads.
Anybody has to be active there.
Berthold and others want to be active there. (discussed with Wilhelm Mild)
We can receive additional qualified people with Linux knowledge having an eye on all topics.
Neil has got the idea with Discourse for receiving emails and exchange
Sarah is suggesting keeping up the mailing list for Developers and using Discourse/Forum for users.
Neil: Tries to get software zeek packaged on Fedora:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zeek/pull-request/1
openSUSE: Enablement of python-onnx for AI on Telum processors (within containers):
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215337

8 August 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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