SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open
Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables
collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool
sets and resources, today announces the launch of Ambitus, a new
community of developers who want to better understand how their
existing open source environment can be implemented and operated on
a mainframe. Ambitus joins 8 other OMP projects including Zowe,
which will launch its first virtual hackathon on February 23.
"Open Mainframe Project has made significant progress raising
awareness for mainframe modernization and educating the next
generation of developers," said John
Mertic, Director of Program Management for the Linux
Foundation and Open Mainframe Project. "But there is still
hesitation for open source on the mainframe. Ambitus was created
specifically to help developers and users understand how their
environment works on z/OS and Linux on Z."
Ambitus will foster a community around all open source
technologies on z/OS by educating developers, sharing experiences
about how to use technology stacks to accomplish useful business
tasks and exchanging best practices, sample code, architectures and
more. To learn more about Ambitus, visit
https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/ambitus.
Open Mainframe Project's First-Ever Virtual Hackathon for
Zowe
Open Mainframe Project's Zowe is a framework that
provides interoperability and uses the latest web technologies for
products and solutions from multiple vendors. It helps make the
z/OS environment more "cloud-like" and aims to improve integration
in hybrid cloud environments. Launched just last year, the Zowe
community has grown strong with almost 200 committers, more than
17,000 commits and more than 1,650 developers exchanging
information, best practices and questions on Slack.
OMP is launching a virtual hackathon that aims to educate
developers, students, engineers and makers around the world about
the Zowe framework and how it can be used to create enterprise
applications. This online hackathon will launch on February 23 and will accept all Zowe-related
projects from a team of 2 or more participants.
After April 5, Open Mainframe
Project will host a webinar where each team can present their
project in front of a panel of judges. OMP will recognize leading
entries by inviting attendees to the inaugural Open Mainframe
Summit at no cost to them. To register or to learn more, visit
https://www.openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-projects-zowe-virtual-hackathon.
The Inaugural Open Mainframe Summit
The Inaugural Open
Mainframe Summit, which welcomes longtime OMP members SUSE and
Vicom Infinity as Gold Sponsors, will bring together different
levels of mainframers and technologists to share best practices,
hot topics, use cases and demos.
OMP has launched its Call for Proposals for the event and
invites all technologists, developers and thought leaders to submit
abstracts on a wide variety of topics such as Use Cases, AI, Hybrid
Cloud, Analytics, Modern DevOps and Open Source. The deadline to
submit is May 29, 2020. Visit the
website to learn more:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/program/cfp/#overview
Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Details can be
found here:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/sponsor/.
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site next week at SHARE
with several speaking sessions about Zowe and a sponsorship for the
annual Women in Technology breakfast. Visit the OMP website to
learn more.
About the Open Mainframe Project
The Open Mainframe
Project is intended to serve as a focal point for deployment and
use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment.
With a vision of Open Source on the Mainframe as the standard for
enterprise class systems and applications, the project's mission is
to build community and adoption of Open Source on the mainframe by
eliminating barriers to Open Source adoption on the mainframe,
demonstrating value of the mainframe on technical and business
levels, and strengthening collaboration points and resources for
the community to thrive. Learn more about the project at
https://www.openmainframeproject.org.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the
organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies
to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and
commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source
community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by
creating the largest shared technology investment in history.
Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools,
training and events to scale any open source project, which
together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one
company. More information can be found at
www.linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses
trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation,
please see its trademark usage page:
www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Media Contact:
Maemalynn Meanor
The Linux Foundation
Maemalynn@linuxfoundation.org
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