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[PLUG] [plug-announce] Tue Jul 8 - PLUG North - "May the Source Be With You: Spreading Open Source from x86 to the Outer Rim" by Elizabeth Joseph (7pm at SkySwitch) 

PLUG North will be meeting on Tuesday, July 8 at SkySwitch (the former
CoreDial)'s offices in Blue Bell, beginning at 7 PM. Directions to the
meeting location can be found at the end of this email.

This month, PLUG welcomes back Elizabeth Joseph, who leads the Open
Source Office for IBM Z and LinuxOne at IBM. Lyz will be giving a talk
entitled "May the Source Be With You: Spreading Open Source from x86
to the Outer Rim".

    Want to hear about open source software on mainframes again? I’m here to oblige!

    Since my last talk at PLUG North back in 2023 we’ve seen dozens of
    traditionally Linux-based tools come to z/OS (and remain open
    source!), another release of the legendary IBM LinuxONE mainframe, and
    increased support for both Linux and z/OS on CI and development
    platforms like GitLab and GitHub. Emulation used by open source
    projects to cross-compile has also improved, with developers from IBM
    increasingly contributing code to QEMU and new developers external to
    IBM contributing to Unicorn, the CPU emulator framework.

    I’ll also talk about how the continued rise of ARM and the era of
    GPUs has caused a new wave of organizations considering non-x86
    architectures and generally other ways of looking at how they do
    computational work.

Lyz tells me you can even run Emacs on mainframes these days!

The meeting will start at 7. Doors will open around 6:45. We will be
meeting at SkySwitch's office space in Blue Bell, PA.

SkySwitch
  751 Arbor Way
  Blue Bell, PA 19422

Directions and other information are on our website:

  http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/coredial.html
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