Since its launch in 2015, Open Mainframe Project has slowly gained technical momentum and grown the ecosystem. With more than 30 partners and members, 2019 was a turning point for the project. We doubled the number of projects that are hosted and became more of an umbrella much like CNCF and Hyperledger. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, which speaks to the commitment that companies of all sizes have made to be good partners in the OMP community.

In this session, John Mertic will outline growing pains and strategies that have helped
OMP break apart from the pack and become an umbrella with nine different but complementary open source projects underneath it. OMP has a technical infrastructure that lets contributors share responsibility for the project, which ensures that the people contributors trust with decision making are in-fact granted ownership over that decision making and also that responsibilities are distributed rather than centralized whenever possible. John will also discuss some of the new OMP projects and how to jump start their TSC and contributors.