Summary of the 18 February 2016 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Peter Hutterer, Alex Deucher, Daniel Vetter, Egbert Eich, Keith Packard, Rob Clark, Martin Peres,
Absent:
Matt Dew,
Summary
Agenda: logo request, x.org woes, gsoc, voting, outreachy, evoc payement
x.org woes being addressed, meanwhile www.xorg-foundation.org (without www. it redirects to mailman because of the ad-hoc mail setup) https://members.xorg-foundation.org (the https:// is important) and {secretary,board,members}@xorg-foundation.org serve as intermediate names for the same old servers - it's just a DNS issue because the DNS server died.
Gsoc started, need ideas! http://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/
Items discussed
ITEM: request to use logo derived from X.org logo Egbert looked at it, board votes to decline ACTIONS: Daniel to send mail with decision STATUS: Pending ITEM: x.org woes Daniel handling this with Leon, with the great help of fd.o admins. Leon on vacation but will try to update dns records as soon as possible. ACTIONS: Daniel to handle with Leon ACTIONS: Peter to ping Daniel Stone to fix up the plain xorg-foundation.org redirect to point at www.xorg-foundation.org STATUS: Pending ITEM: elections All ready using the fallback domains to proceed. Peter sent out an election howto for posterity to board@. Concers about proceeding while x.org is down, will stall if x.org isn't in working shape again by the time the nomination period starts (on 22th Feb). ACTIONS: Peter to start nomination on 22th Feb (if x.org is working again), or as soon as x.org works after that date. Secretary enjoys snowboarding meanwhile. STATUS: Pending ITEM: gsoc Started, need to fill in ideas: http://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/ ACTIONS: Alex to send out announcement to (more) mailing lists. STATUS: Pending ITEM: outreachy Discussed at length on board@, summary is that it's complicated and there's some serious challenges to make outreachy work. If we can figure these out, maybe next year another attempt. Help and ideas very much welcome. ACTION: Peter&Daniel to chat more with Sarah STATUS: Done