How to Help the Next Generation

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Open Mainframe Project runs practical programs — COBOL Programming Course, Mainframe Open Education, and a Mentorship Program — that place students into real work: ports of Alpine Linux, OpenStack connectors, contributions to Kubernetes/Rancher, Hyperledger and Cloud Foundry. Mainframes remain core to banks and high‑volume transactions, seeing renewed investment and demand; around 60 mentees and roughly 100 students participate in summer and online programs. Jobs are available and often well paid; the project supplies training, tooling (Zowe GUI, user slides, Slack) and hiring pipelines.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:47Technology now adapts to business
3. 10:03Mainframe development is becoming easier
4. 15:37Open Mainframe Project Education
5. 17:51Enabling innovation - modernizing COBOL
6. 19:28Enabling innovation - with the next generation
7. 24:17A focal point for open source on mainframe

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