Thank you, Mark, for sharing this news - the entire Open Mainframe Project community is thrilled to be able to provide this resource for growing open source on Z.
One part of making this resource a reality is funding; as you all know, these machines have significant upfront and ongoing costs. We are looking for corporate sponsors who might be interested in Open Mainframe Project membership, which is how we can fund this endeavor. You can learn more about membership at https://www.openmainframeproject.org/about/join or contact me directly with any questions. John Mertic Director of Program Management - Linux Foundation Academy Software Foundation, LF Energy, and Open Mainframe Project jmer...@linuxfoundation.org +1 234-738-4571 Schedule a meeting with me at https://meetings.hubspot.com/jmertic On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:06 PM Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main > > At the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project meeting this week, it > was announced that beginning in 2023, the OMP will have a z15 available > for any Open Source project that wants to make use of it. According to > the announcement at > > https://www.openmainframeproject.org/press/2022/09/21/open-mainframe-announces-new-mainframe > "...this mainframe infrastructure will be available for broad open > source projects as a development, test, and continuous delivery > environment, enabling developers within these communities to be able to > support both z/OS and Linux on s390x." > > The z15 will be hosted at Marist College, adding to their already > good-sized menagerie of IBM Z hardware. The hardware is being donated by > Broadcom Mainframe Software Division. > > While we've had similar resources available for Linux-based OSS projects > for some time, this is the first that I'm aware of the availability of > no-cost access to IBM Z hardware for z/OS-based Open Source developers. > It will be interesting to see if any more z/OS-based OSS projects come > along to make use of this. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
