We added MoonRay today to the ASWF Landscape, which is a great tool for seeing all the open source in the visual and special effects industry. Check it out at https://l.aswf.io
Indeed it is. Lost by father to cancer, and father-in-law right now is fighting cancer. Both them and Dan way too young.
I'm blessed to have known Dan in my career at the LF. He was a man of principle, and truly cared for the community that he served. Recently I worked with him to build landscapes for many of my projects ( https://github.com/cncf/landscapeapp ) and always appreciated his attention to detail and care for a great end product. He closed pull requests for any landscape faster than any of us could even get to them, and was constantly looking through the artwork to ensure it was high quality. Some folks that could have rubbed the wrong way - for me, it showed how deeply he cared for the communities to have great assets. You see that thread in every open source effort he touched.
Dan taught me how to serve in an open source foundation leadership role by his great example. His mark on efforts at the Linux Foundation, and open source in general, will truly be missed - but forever his mark will be implanted.
A few other bits to clarify things ( coming from me being Director of the Open Mainframe Project )...
- The coursework itself is being contributed to a new open source project being hosted by Open Mainframe Project ( CC-BY-40 license ).
- We would have liked it to be ready at the time of announcement, but it literally got approved by the Open Mainframe Project TAC as a new project about an hour before the blog post went live ;-). Have no fear, it should be landing next week ( there will be a bit of work to come on translating docx files to markdown, in case anyone wants to help ).
- Right now the course work focused on VS Code as an editor, but the project is very open to contributions that leverage other IDEs ( such as Eclipse Che, Atom, etc )
- Open Mainframe Project is part of the Linux Foundation, with IBM being one of the 30+ sponsoring organizations.
- On the notes I've seen around "hey let's rewrite all that COBOL code in some modern language", I won't add more fuel to that fire ;-). I will however say there is some interesting work in a project hosted by Open Mainframe Project called Zowe ( https://zowe.org ), which basically makes connecting to mainframe apps and data on z/OS much easier ( think REST APIs, CLI interface you can use on your laptop, App framework for creating browser based apps, etc ).
Anyways - hope this helps! Feel free to ping me if you want more details or help getting engaged ( @jmertic on Twitter ).