Summary of the 27 April 2017 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Martin Peres, Alex Deucher, Bryce Harrington, Egbert Eich, Keith Packard, Rob Clark, Taylor Campbell
Absent: Daniel Vetter
Summary
Agenda: elections, website sponsorship, dissolution paperwork, gsoc, evoc, khronos, coc
Board approved two expenses relating to getting the old X.org Foundation legal entity dissolved.
GSoC allocated 5 slots for us this year. Project acceptances will be announced shortly, work to kickoff soon.
Items discussed
ITEM: elections board@ member&admins have been updated. gpg keys received from Rob+Taylor+Martin, added to repo, and directions mailed. Remaining actions still in process. ACTIONS: Rob+Taylor to become board server admins, taking over from Peter. ACTIONS: Rob+Taylor to update the membership agreement everywhere (but especially on the new member form on members.x.org). ACTIONS: Daniel to start a thread to figure out a better mtg slot for Europe STATUS: Pending ITEM: sponsorship placement on the website The request was identified as fake/spam. Might still be worth doing some day, but going to backburner for now. Item can be reopened later if/when it seems worth undertaking. STATUS: Done ITEM: Dissolution paperwork Bryce is continuing to work with Delaware and NRAI on getting the dissolution finalized. Board voted to pay two related expenses: a) $10 fee for dissolution with State of Delaware, b) $199 for our annual NRAI dues. ACTIONS: Bryce to finalize dissolution with Delaware ACTIONS: Bryce to pay NRAI dues ACTIONS: Bryce to terminate NRAI account STATUS: Pending ITEM: gsoc Google announced slot allocations Monday, X.org got 5 projects. Martin will continue supervising/monitoring mentors/students, and ensure students are posting a blog entry per week. Taylor added as gsoc orc admin. No further board-level actions required at this time. STATUS: Done ITEM: evoc Rob has followed up on all the EVoC requests submitted so far. No further action required until concrete proposals are received. STATUS: Done ITEM: khronos Martin's gotten an answer from SPI. ACTIONS: Martin to put SPI in direct contact with khronos. STATUS: Pending ITEM: code of conduct Everyone's had a chance to voice thoughts. If there's any followup actions needed, danvet can re-open item later. STATUS: Done