Date is 2015-09-04, times are UTC+10.
06:58 < whot> good morning 06:58 < danvet> hi all 06:59 <+egbert> hi danvet! hi all! 07:00 -!- marcoz [~oftc-webi@c-67-190-28-99.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has joined #xf-bod 07:00 < agd5f> hi 07:01 < marcoz> hey 07:03 < mupuf-jolla> right on time, marcoz :D 07:03 < marcoz> hey mupuf-jolla how's it? 07:04 < mupuf-jolla> pretty good, though i have a ton of work to get my talk ready :p You? 07:04 < marcoz> work is kicking my a$$. 07:04 < robclark> hi 07:05 < marcoz> looking forward to xdc 07:05 < whot> stukreit: you online? 07:05 < mupuf-jolla> keithp: ping 07:05 < mupuf-jolla> marcoz: did you add your name in the list? 07:06 < whot> agenda for today: evoc payment, XDC, gsoc update, expo 07:06 < marcoz> not yet. I need to 07:06 < whot> let's start with gsoc until stukreit pongs - pencils down deadline passed, wasn't it? mupuf-jolla? 07:06 < mupuf-jolla> yes 07:07 < mupuf-jolla> i am supposed to make a blog post about it but some students did not write their blog post! 07:07 < stukreit> hello 07:07 < mupuf-jolla> i need to ask them again. i gave been too lazy to force them apparently... 07:08 < whot> mupuf-jolla: anything else that needs to be done for gsoc? 07:08 < whot> do we get org payments again this year? 07:08 < keithp> hello 07:08 < mupuf-jolla> google asked us for something, i forwarded the request to stukreit. 07:09 < mupuf-jolla> no news since then 07:09 < whot> stukreit: ^^ 07:09 < mupuf-jolla> Carol talked about a stipend 07:09 < stukreit> mupuf: not registering, this must be an old request 07:09 < mupuf-jolla> so i guess we do 07:09 < mupuf-jolla> yeah, around a month ago 07:09 < whot> ok, mupuf-jolla can I get you to re-send this to stukreit and get this going? 07:10 < stukreit> drawing a blank 07:10 < mupuf-jolla> i am almost home, will send it tgen 07:10 < whot> thanks 07:10 < whot> anything else re:GSoC? 07:10 < stukreit> the last I remember, I had updated the bank account info to gsoc, but hadn't gotten an ack from them 07:10 < mupuf-jolla> well, it seems like only varad will be coming to Xdc 07:11 < robclark> fwiw, varad is still working on getting visa.. so that might be a bit of a headache.. 07:11 < whot> robclark: does he need some signature/invitation from us? 07:11 < mupuf-jolla> my student could not get his visa in time, or did not dare too 07:11 < robclark> <varad> in other news... I've been refused a Canadian visa twice now, on completely absurd grounds :-( 07:11 < robclark> trying once again 07:11 < robclark> whot, I'll check 07:12 < whot> also, for the archives: varad was approved by the board for travel sponsorship 07:13 < whot> robclark: if he does, please take that over as needed. 07:13 < robclark> well, 02:45 in New Delhi, so I won't hear back about invite letter until tomorrow.. 07:13 < whot> right 07:13 < robclark> do we have some 'xorg foundation' letterhead or something like that? 07:13 < whot> not that I know of 07:13 < agd5f> robclark, since when do US citizens need a visa to visit Canada? 07:14 < robclark> agd5f, varad is in India.. 07:14 < agd5f> oh, varad, I missed that part :) 07:14 < robclark> whot, hmm, ok.. I guess I can invent something.. 07:15 <+egbert> from my experience it would be good if the organizer had some way to invite people. 07:16 < robclark> agd5f, that said, there have been cases where US citizens needed invite letters.. at old job we had one guy turned away at Canadian immigration ;-) 07:16 <+egbert> when i did the conference in 2012 i went thru suse. they had experience with what was needed and used exactly the right wording. 07:17 < robclark> maybe AMD could do invite letters.. I guess that is someone whoever handles visa applications has heard of before.. 07:17 < agd5f> I go up there pretty often for work and never had a problem 07:17 < agd5f> or Seneca College 07:18 <+egbert> yeah, or both. it turned out that both suse and hopf's university sent out invitation letters. 07:18 <+egbert> it may help to show two sponsors. 07:18 < whot> huh, even I need a visa for .ca, didn't expect that 07:18 <+egbert> whot: you are austrian? 07:19 < whot> yeah, apparently I need an eTA 07:19 <+egbert> this is this electronic thing? 07:19 < whot> yeah 07:19 <+egbert> like the us has? 07:19 < whot> possibly, I'll let you know when I filed it :) 07:19 < danvet> I thought that's only required from March 2016 07:19 <+egbert> that was my thinking as well. 07:20 < whot> oh, indeed. says so in small print 07:20 < danvet> yeah they're bastards ;_) 07:21 <+egbert> danvet: this took care of your visit ;p 07:21 < whot> ok, sorry for derailing, let's get back to the topic 07:21 < whot> robclark: let us know if varad needs anything, you can do all the stuff on behalf of the board anyway 07:22 < robclark> ok.. I guess main thing is how to word it right and make it official/legit.. 07:22 < whot> ftr, I asked varad and sam to bunk together, they're happy with it 07:22 < robclark> ok, cool, that should cut costs a bit 07:23 < whot> anything else related to XDC? 07:24 <+egbert> please get the information quickly. from my wife 20 years ago, the candians require 10 working days to issue a visa. 07:25 < marcoz> wow, that' cutting it really closely 07:25 < robclark> ouch.. 07:25 < whot> indeed 07:26 < agd5f> might be shorter these days. still probably better safe than sorry 07:26 < mupuf_> agreed! 07:26 <+egbert> it may, but 20y ago things were less f*** up also 07:27 < whot> right, let's move on though. EVoC - Brian confirmed Juliet has sent patches to the list, so we approved the first payment 07:27 < whot> stukreit: has that gone out? 07:27 < stukreit> not yet. Been meaning to. 07:28 < stukreit> should I subtract out the ~$10 test amount? 07:28 < whot> might as well 07:28 < whot> that way we don't have to think of it anymore :) 07:28 < stukreit> k. I have to convert $$ to cameroon francs 07:29 < whot> doesn't the bank do that? 07:29 < stukreit> At a very favorable rate! 07:29 < whot> well, how else are you transferring it? 07:30 < stukreit> i'm dis-remembering a detail: if I send in the local currency, the fee is lower. (I'll just log in now and figure this out. again.) 07:31 < whot> ah, ok. then go for what costs us less :) 07:32 <+alanc> https://www.google.com/search?q=usd+to+xaf 07:32 < whot> ok, last item on the agenda is expo. robclark? 07:32 < robclark> no news on expo since last time, everything migrated and seems to be working.. just need to sort out sendmail w/ keithp I guess.. 07:33 < robclark> I guess we could try the import/export exercise again now that wiki is migrated.. might not hurt.. 07:35 < whot> we should really finish that up. the migration is needed because we expect expo to die soon - and that was several moons ago 07:35 < stukreit> $500US= 294851.90 caf 07:36 < whot> keithp: can you and robclark sort out the sendmail setup please? 07:37 < robclark> whot, yeah, I think we are pretty close, maybe we should take regular members and wiki snapshots (since I'll anyways have to re-load latest when we switch over).. 07:37 < robclark> I probably should have talked to keithp about what needs to be done when I saw him at LPC.. 07:38 < keithp> yeah, we can sort it out 07:38 < keithp> it seemed 'all done', but there are pieces not connected 07:38 < whot> thanks. fwiw, I'll be sporadically online only from now until xdc 07:38 < whot> urgh, grammar fail, but you get the point 07:38 < robclark> heheh 07:39 < stukreit> Ok, the payment to Juliet has been invoked. 07:39 < whot> stukreit: thanks 07:40 < whot> alrighty, anything else? 07:41 < stukreit> The fee is $35. Shoulda used bitcoin 07:41 < whot> ouch 07:42 < whot> alrighty, guess I'll call this meeting closed then. thanks for attending. next meeting will be at XDC 07:42 < stukreit> and bofa gave an exchange rate of $1.00 = 553 xaf vs googled amount of $1.00= 589.7. 07:43 < stukreit> Hooray Banking! 07:45 < mupuf_> thanks, see you soon! 07:46 < robclark> cyall in a couple weeks 07:47 < keithp> ta