Summary of the 18 January 2018 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present:
Alex Deucher, Daniel Vetter, Bryce Harrington, Keith Packard, Rob Clark, Taylor Campbell, Egbert Eich,
Absent:
Martin Peres,
Summary
Agenda: gsoc, treasurer's report, xdc date, election
Gsoc org application deadline 23rd Jan, ready mentoring projects!
Elections, we need candidates for the board again!
XDC18 will be 26-28th Sept
Items discussed
ITEM: gsoc Martin+Taylor volunteer for org admin, Alex volunteers to help out. No student travel request for fosdem. ACTIONS: Martin will submit the application tonight-ish. ACTIONS: Martin check with Igalia for visa invitation letters (we'll probably need them). STATUS: Pending ITEM: treasure report Blocked on SPI sending updated data ACTIONS: Bryce is on it STATUS: Pending ITEM: xdc date Igalia propsed 26-28th Sept, that seems to fit fairly well with other conferences (and this year doesn't clash with the khr f2f!). Board votes to go with that. STATUS: Done ITEM: elections Egbert decided to not re-run, big kudos for all his time on the board. Election committee is Rob, Martin, Taylor, Egbert and Daniel. Tentatively Rob+Taylor to run the show. Election procedure docs: https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/ ACTIONS: Rob+Taylor to roll the process, starting with membership expiry. ACTIONS: Need to start finding candidates STATUS: Pending