Summary of the 15 March 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, Egbert Eich, Rob Clark,
Absent: Martin Peres, Taylor Campbell,
Summary
Agenda: gsoc, treasurer's report, election, sponsoring, xdc cfp deadline
Electsion: Candidate Q&A started, 6 candidates for 4 seats:
https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/2018/
XDC CFP deadline will be 2 months before XDC! Expect lots of announcements as reminders.
Items discussed
ITEM: treasurer report Bryce has been updating the ledger with the limited information we have. SPI promises to have FY17 date ready by beginning of April. Still not clear how we can check which sponsors have paid already for xdc18 (and anything else currently going on). Decided to have a preliminary report for now, will have to finalize later on. ACTIONS: Bryce and Daniel keep nagging SPI. ACTIONS: Bryce to assemble preliminary report. STATUS: Pending ITEM: elections 6 candidates for 4 board seats. Elections will start next Thu. ACTIONS: Rob to set up the vote, get Daniel to help if needed. STATUS: Pending ITEM: Sponoring policies General agreement on the changes for the general sponsoring policy. Event sponsoring policy clarification discussion was inconclusive, need to discuss more. ACTIONS: Bryce to respin the general policy patch per m-l discussion. ACTIONS: Daniel to bring up the event sponsor organizer clarification again. STATUS: Pending Done ITEM: XDC CFP dealine Decide to set the deadline for when we decide on talks to 2 months ahead. Late submissions will be accepted still if there's any free slots, and we'll do lots of advertising to make everyone aware. Reason: Last 2 XDCs had actual rejections (due to lack of time), we need to organize this better than first come first served. STATUS: Done