Yes I am involved with the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project. We have a 
Technical Steering Committee which set the project direction.  We expect to 
have focus on projects that will benefit running open software on the mainframe.
Phil

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> On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the question is about Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project
> in partnership with a bunch of people.
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/08/linux-foundation-brings-together-industry-heavyweights-advance
>
> https://www.openmainframeproject.org/
>
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
>
>> On 12 December 2015 at 01:27, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mainframe
>>
>> That's entirely different from what I thought it was.
>>
>> Neverrrrrr Minnnnnnndddd
>>
>> -soup
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:23 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Open Mainframe?  News to me.
>>>
>>> Mainframes require three criteria:
>>>
>>> 1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390"
>>> redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out);
>>> 2) Maximum I/O throughput; and
>>> 3) Maximum I/O connectivity.
>>>
>>> Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology.
>>>
>>> Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a
>>> mainframe.  We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS
>>> instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull
>>> off...
>>>
>>> Now you've all just added to my reading list.
>>>
>>> (laughs maniacally)
>>>
>>> "You are the MS-DOS of Evil...   Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!"
>>>
>>> -soup
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved
>>>> somehow?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> chs
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>>>
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>>> MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows
>>> "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors;
>>> Regardless
>>> of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail
>>> because,
>>> somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me
>>
>>
>>
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>> com
>> MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows
>> "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors;
>> Regardless
>> of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because,
>> somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me
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>
>
> --
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>
> Dimitri.
>
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