Stream: Virtual Room 4
Time: 15:00 - 15:45
The technology skills gap is not new. Mainframe organizations are aware of the skills gap and the difficulties of attracting new talent to the mainframe because of misguided notions that it’s an outdated system.
Far from being obsolete, many mainframes today are seeing increased workloads as they underpin high volume transactions in a number of industry sectors, boosted especially by the rise in customer facing online and mobile applications. Whole generations of people are “touching” the mainframe in this way without even realizing it.
Open Mainframe Project aims to educate the next generation through its hands-on programs including the COBOL Training Course, Mainframe Open Education and the Mentorship Program. In this presentation, attendees will learn more about these programs and how to can get involved.
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John Mertic is a Program Director at the Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped Academy Software Foundation, LF AI & Data, LF Energy, ODPi, Open Mainframe Project, and R Consortium accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open source leadership roles at SugarCRM, OW2, and OpenSocial. With an extensive open source background, he is a regular speaker at various Linux Foundation and other industry trade shows globally. John is also an avid writer and has authored three books: “Open Source Projects - Beyond Code: A blueprint for scalable and sustainable open source projects”, “The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications” and “Building on SugarCRM” as well as published articles in numerous technology and open source publications.
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