Summary of the 30 January 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Daniel Vetter, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez, Lyude Paul, Manasi Navare, Bryce Harrington, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent:
Summary
Agenda: VESA status, requesting ledger data from SPI, X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, elections, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, GSoC/EVoC, "LGBT-free" zones in Poland, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2020 sponsors, sponsored travel receipts from XDC2019
Items discussed
ITEM: VESA status Apparently the VESA board didn't receive my previous emails with the list of members. Sent them the list again. ACTIONS: Lyude will poke them again sometime today to make sure they actually got the list of interested members this time. STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI Got a response from SPI, they don't have the answer yet but are currently looking into it ACTIONS: Wait for SPI to respond STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Lyude meant to do this, but got caught up with work this week and last. ACTIONS: Lyude will try to poke SPI about this again this week. STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections Daniel Vetter still waiting on mupuf to push instructions for election onto wiki ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org Due to the estimated long term costs of hosting the Gitlab instance and CI instance, we need to figure out another sponsor to help cover the said costs. ACTIONS: Harry Wentland to touch base with Daniel Stone to see if Google might be willing to sponsor, and send general overview of costs to Daniel. STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC X.org will participate in GSoC for this year, Trevor Woerner and Manasi Navare will help admin. Additionally, a student from GSoC from the previous year is interested in participating in EVoC this year. Board votes to approve potential EVoC candidate. ACTIONS: Trevor to figure out if student is maybe eligible for GSoC and if they would be interested in that, along with registering X.org as an organization for GSoC this year by Feb 5th STATUS: Pending ITEM: "LGBT-free" zones in Poland X.org is continuing to evaluate the potential risks of hosting XDC in Gdańsk this year. As well, we are continuing to consider alternative venues as a backup and already have one that would be willing to host us. Additionally, X.org has decided not to make a public statement on this until we have a solid plan for how we're going to handle this. ACTIONS: Samuel to talk to activist group recommended by Venue organizers to build a better idea of the risks involved, talk to other potential alternative venues, and poke our venue organizers again. Lyude will also look at the possibility of hosting Boston, just so we have a backup plan in case other venues fall through. STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing Intel and ARM are still stuck and haven't paid invoices. ACTIONS: Eric to continue poking Intel and ARM, Lyude to attempt using her secretary poke. STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors Daniel hasn't had a chance to poke potential sponsors yet ACTIONS: Daniel to poke potential sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Sponsored travel receipts for XDC2019 Student whose expenses were discussed last week responded and offered to recalculate their expenses to cover days of conf + one day on either side. Board votes to approve it. ACTIONS: Eric to respond to student, continue poking other students for receipts. STATUS: Pending