Date is 2010-08-17, times are UTC+02.
23:03 <mattst88> (someone ping me when it's an appropriate time to pose a question to the board) 23:03 <+dberkholz> hi 23:04 <+emmes> mattst88: ping 23:04 <agd5f> mattst88: go ahead 23:04 <+mherrb> jokes apart, if you tell me when you arrive and feel you need a bit of assistance on arrival, I'm planning to be available all of the day before. 23:04 <+emmes> I would say, time is appropriate as it gets 23:04 <mattst88> I wanted to ask this after I'd completed my GSoC, else it would be a bit inappropriate: 23:04 <+emmes> mherrb: noted :-) and appriciated :-) 23:05 <mattst88> I boughht 60~65 dollars worth of video cards for the project, and Ian suggested that the Foundation might reimburse me for this. 23:05 <mattst88> IIRC he mentioned it to Keith and Bart, but I haven't pursued this any further in a few months. 23:06 <+emmes> mattst88: what was your GSoC again? Sorry, Alzheimer... 23:06 <mattst88> KMS for glint, and documenting the process for writing a KMS driver. 23:07 <+emmes> yep, I think I remember now. 23:07 <alanc> $65 sounds well within the foundation's budget, especially if someone filled out the paperwork to get our $500 mentoring fee from GSoC 23:08 <mattst88> OK, great. I think I should send documentation of all this to board@. 23:08 <mattst88> Is there anything else I should do? 23:08 <alanc> do the board members want to vote now or wait until he sends the details? 23:09 <alanc> (I don't see bart in channel - are keithp & anholt actually here?) 23:09 <+anholt> yeah 23:09 <+emmes> if he passed GSoC I'm fine with it anyhow :-) 23:09 <mattst88> emmes, yep, I'm in good shape. :) 23:09 <+anholt> agreed on "sounds like a good idea", just a bit of notes on what you purchased in an email would probably be good. 23:10 <+dberkholz> i'm fine with approving it now. if you have receipts, those might be useful to have 23:10 <+mherrb> I'm ok on the principle. Just check the details to make sure it's really video cards :) 23:10 <mattst88> dberkholz, yes, of course. I'll send those along. 23:10 <alanc> I vote +1 for reimbursing approx. $65 worth of video cards 23:10 <+dberkholz> we may eventually need that kind of documentation for audits 23:10 <+anholt> +1 23:10 <agd5f> +1 23:10 <+dberkholz> +1 23:10 <+emmes> +1, agreeing on docs 23:10 <+mherrb> +1 23:11 <+Bart_Massey> Apologies for my extreme lateness. 23:11 <alanc> so mattst88 please send details to board@foundation and cc stuart.kreitman@oracle.com (our treasurer) to get the reimbursement 23:12 <mattst88> OK, will do so. Thanks! 23:12 <alanc> and we'll work out via e-mail what sort of reciepts are needed for our records 23:12 <+dberkholz> Bart_Massey: we just voted to reimburse mattst88 for $65 of video cards he bought for gsoc. 23:12 <+Bart_Massey> Excellent 23:12 <+Bart_Massey> +1 23:13 <agd5f> not much new on the 501c3 side. apparently mail was broken for ~2 weeks, so if the board could review my email and give me their opinions on the questions, I'll take that back to Karen. thanks to those who already replied 23:13 <+dberkholz> i'm in agreement on accepting copyright/TM. not sure on the tradeoffs of public vs private. 23:14 <alanc> so as long as we're spending money, I think we have 4 requests for XDS travel sponsorship 23:14 <+mherrb> (plus the one of Peter that we already accepted) 23:15 <agd5f> dberkholz: you generally want to be public, but that has some requirements you have to meet over the following 5 years 23:16 <+mherrb> and Jeremy Huddlestone (sp?) from apple asked me details, saying Apple won't pay for him. But I saw him remove his name from the attendees wiki today. I don't know what's up. 23:16 <alanc> plus one offer from Intel to provide funding for travel 23:16 <+dberkholz> agd5f: yeah, i recall one of the bsd's having serious issues with too much money coming from a small number of sources 23:17 <+dberkholz> not sure whether we would be affected by that too 23:17 <agd5f> some kind of 30/10 rule with regard to donations over the next 5 years. If we don't meet the requirements we become a private charity, so no big deal 23:17 <+dberkholz> does that mean we lose tax deductibility? 23:17 <agd5f> no 23:17 <agd5f> just slightly stricter regulation in some regards. I don't remember all the details 23:18 <+emmes> regarding travel sponsorship I guess we should fund anyone who's willing to do a talk. Opinions? 23:18 <+Bart_Massey> Up to the limits of our funding I think that's right 23:18 <agd5f> sounds good to me 23:18 <+Bart_Massey> Assuming we'd have any interest in the talk 23:18 <+emmes> that goes without saying :-) 23:18 <+Bart_Massey> I mean, vendor commercials don't count, for example 23:19 <+Bart_Massey> BTW, I'm planning to apply for some funding as well in the next day or two. 23:19 <alanc> or people we think should be present for some of the discussions/BoFs 23:19 <+emmes> right 23:19 <+Bart_Massey> Better to handle me via email, though, I think. 23:19 <+Bart_Massey> I've got a talk. :-) 23:20 <alanc> for instance, the OpenBSD DRI developer would be good for the proposed BoF on DRI/KMS for non-Linux platforms 23:20 <+Bart_Massey> Sure. 23:21 <alanc> all 3 requests/4 people I saw come in during yesterday's resumption of email delivery seemed reasonable to me 23:21 <+Bart_Massey> Me too. 23:21 <agd5f> me too 23:21 <+mherrb> and mee too. 23:22 <alanc> now if we could only get mail delivery to be reliable 23:22 <+Bart_Massey> Tolef thinks he has that under control now. Hope he's right. 23:22 <+Bart_Massey> Mailman wedges all the time for everyone; just need a plan for noticing and/or unwedging it 23:23 <alanc> does anyone want to discuss more or vote on the requests separately, or just go ahead and vote now on approving the travel funding for Matt, Jamey, Josh & Owain? 23:23 <+Bart_Massey> I move we approve all the requests 23:24 <+mherrb> agreed 23:24 <+emmes> +1 23:24 <agd5f> +1 23:24 <alanc> +1 23:25 <+mherrb> +1 23:25 <alanc> looks like that's about $3k USD for the 3 that gave estimates, plus an unknown amount for Matt to travel from the US 23:25 <+anholt> +1 23:25 <+Bart_Massey> Matt may actually still be in China; don't know yet. 23:25 <+Bart_Massey> Can't remember 23:26 <alanc> ah, well, then about the same distance the other way around 23:26 <+mherrb> alanc a bit more for owain: he only gave me an estimate for the train. have to add 2 or 3 hotel nights. 23:27 <+Bart_Massey> Anyway, call it $5K for the lot; that still leaves plenty of headroom on Intel's generous donation. 23:27 <alanc> still, leaves most of Intel's offer left to cover additional requests (Jeremy?) or the social event 23:27 <+Bart_Massey> Don't y'all wish we were still doing two of these per year? :-) 23:28 <alanc> sure, approving spending other people's money is no sweat at all 23:28 <alanc> the organizing bits, well, we all owe mherrb much gratitude since that's the hard work 23:29 <+Bart_Massey> Indeed. thank you mherrb! 23:29 <+Bart_Massey> And yes, the organizing and planning was what I was commenting on. :-) 23:30 <alanc> anything else for XDS we need to discuss today? we should all be there in a month 23:30 <+emmes> any time table yet? 23:30 <+Bart_Massey> Want to talk about X.Org logo copyright? 23:30 <+Bart_Massey> Oh, sorry, XDS. 23:30 <+emmes> saturday could prove difficult for me, if we plan any bod meeting... 23:31 <alanc> last I looked at the schedule it was very light - need to encourage more people to put down topics/talks 23:31 <+emmes> so chances are we do the bod meeting thu or fri evening, correct? 23:32 <alanc> I will be in transit during our normally scheduled board meeting on 9/14 - I assumed that would be replaced with an in person "Chat with the Board" session during one of the conference days 23:32 <+emmes> sounds reasonable 23:32 <alanc> or maybe I'll already be in Toulouse by then, the time zones are confusing me 23:33 <+emmes> it's 11pm-12pm. if that helps :P 23:33 <+mherrb> emmes: one evening for the social event, the other for a board meeting. 23:34 <+mherrb> alanc: generally travelling from us->europe you loose one day. 23:34 <+emmes> mherrb: sounds good! 23:35 <+mherrb> I will probably set the day of the social event next week (the people are on vacation now) 23:36 <alanc> ah right, I will be airborne over the US at 2pm Tuesday, arrive in Toulouse at 14:30 Wed 23:38 <agd5f> I'll be on a plane as well tuesday 23:38 <agd5f> arriving at 8:15 wed 23:38 <agd5f> er 11:30 rather 23:39 <+emmes> I'll arrive pretty damn late in the evening on wed. 11pm. 23:40 <+emmes> mherrb: any ideas whether the bus to midtown is still running that late? 23:40 <+mherrb> yes, it runs up to the last plane 23:41 <+mherrb> the last one leaves at 0:15am. so you have some margin for plane delays 23:41 <agd5f> what hotels are people staying at? 23:41 <agd5f> still need to book mine 23:42 <+Bart_Massey> Not to derail the meeting, but I've got grades due in a couple of hours. Any chance we could get the other stuff done first? 23:42 <agd5f> Bart_Massey: sure. what else on the agenda? 23:42 <+emmes> rt_Massey: do you know the status of our logo? appart from that we have the copyright? 23:42 <alanc> okay - X.Org logo copyright/trademark? 23:42 <+mherrb> Irecommend the Albert 1er hotel if possible. 23:43 <+Bart_Massey> I think even the copyright is mildly dicey given the bad records we have from TOG. 23:43 <+Bart_Massey> Our best plan, far and away, is probably to get a new logo that is less ugly and that we unarguably own, and trademark it. 23:43 <alanc> and would it cover the original logo with just the X or the version we have on the website now with the added loop? 23:44 <+Bart_Massey> If we run a contest, we can do the logo for less than $500 23:44 <+Bart_Massey> The old MIT X logo is probably hopeless at this point; I don't think we have any control over it 23:44 <alanc> http://www.nettv.tv.br/images/stories/logo.gif is a nicer rendering of it than ours though 23:44 <+Bart_Massey> It will probably be another $300-$500 to get all the trademark reg stuff done, unless SFLC will do it for free. 23:44 <+Bart_Massey> alanc: Indeed :-) 23:44 <+Bart_Massey> It's still an ugly logo 23:45 <agd5f> there's still the trademark application and maintenance fees 23:45 <+Bart_Massey> Yes, the fees are a couple of hundred dollars IIRC, plus something like $50 / year. 23:46 <+Bart_Massey> The principal barrier here is finding someone to run all this, I think. I am *not* volunteering. :-) 23:47 <+Bart_Massey> BTW, that brings up an old, old agenda item. We had voted a long time ago to donate some money to SFLC based on their help to date. We should revisit that and actually do it this time. :-) 23:47 <agd5f> indeed. I very much agree with that 23:48 <+emmes> that must have been before my time. not that I'm against it ;) 23:48 <alanc> it doesn't necessarily need to be a board member, we could put out to the community to ask for volunteers for organizing a logo replacement 23:48 <+Bart_Massey> alanc: excellent point. someone put a note to the xorg list. 23:49 <alanc> yeah, I don't remember discussing an SFLC donation, but would approve of one 23:49 <+Bart_Massey> i don't think many of you were on the Board at that time. :-) 23:49 <alanc> I can send a note to the list to ask for volunteers when I do the minutes 23:50 <+Bart_Massey> I was thinking O($7500), but some other Members thought O($5000) was sufficient. What do other folks think of amounts? 23:50 <+Bart_Massey> alanc: thanks 23:51 <alanc> agd5f is probably in the best position to know how much time they've put in to helping on the 501(c)3 stuff for us 23:51 <+emmes> I can't tell until there is *some* list of things they helped us with. I understand they help Alex with the 501 stuff. 23:51 <+Bart_Massey> Remember, it's been 3+ years. :-0 23:51 <agd5f> they were also involved in the switch from llc to non-profit 23:52 <+Bart_Massey> Indeed 23:53 <+emmes> Right. Just asking because $5000 and up isn't exactly nothing. I know lawers can be expensive, though. 23:54 <+Bart_Massey> Conservatively they've put in 30-40 hours on us. At a typical $400/hour, that's 12-16K. So we're really just doing a courtesy donation here in any case. 23:55 <alanc> $7500 seems reasonable to me 23:55 <+Bart_Massey> From talking to Karen, I think $5K-$10K would be in line with what other organizations that have used their services have donated. 23:55 <alanc> though we probably ought to get a treasurer's report soon (maybe by XDS?) to find out how much money we still have to spend 23:56 <+Bart_Massey> That would be the awesome 23:56 <+emmes> as this isn't exactly pressing, that sounds like a good idea to have first. 23:56 * Bart_Massey notes that xchat won't let him type t e h as one word 23:56 <+emmes> (first this means the donation) 23:56 <+Bart_Massey> emmes: i suppose. but I'd hate to drop it for two years again. let's make sure to deal with it at XDS 23:57 <+dberkholz> fwiw, we don't need to register a trademark to own it 23:57 <+emmes> :-] 23:57 <+dberkholz> trademarks are "earned" by simply using them 23:57 <+anholt> Bart_Massey: settings -> advanced -> auto replace to fix that. 23:57 <agd5f> we also have the $25 delaware franchise fee and ~$2000 in old llc taxes and fees 23:57 <alanc> okay, so we'll table the SFLC donation for now 23:57 <+Bart_Massey> dberkholz: it's complicated. much more complicated than copyright law. you are unlikely to want to bring legal action without a registered mark 23:57 <+Bart_Massey> anholt: thanks! 23:58 <alanc> and given our hour is up, I guess we'll wait until next time to discuss more about the MIT-hosted machines and if they're still worth the expense of hosting there 23:58 * Bart_Massey is bemused that teh->the is the sole auto-replacement 23:58 <+Bart_Massey> alanc: fair enough 23:58 <+Bart_Massey> Thanks all! Move to adjourn 23:59 <+emmes> +1 23:59 <agd5f> +1 23:59 <alanc> +1 23:59 <alanc> thanks for coming everyone