Summary of the 27 February 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, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, X.org/Freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data from SPI, elections, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, GSoC/EVoC, XDC2020
Items discussed
ITEM: VESA status No update yet, Lyude was out on PTO last week and half of this week so didn't get a chance to poke again. ACTIONS: Lyude to poke VESA again and try to figure out what's going on STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing ARM unblocked finally, Intel still stuck ACTIONS: Anholt/Danvet to keep poking Intel STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/Freedesktop.org domain status Still no updates :\ ACTIONS: Lyude and Keith to keep poking SPI STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI Haven't heard back yet ACTIONS: Wait a little longer, and maybe poke next week if we still don't hear anything back to see what the status of SPI's investigation is. STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections Elections still blocked on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/244 ACTIONS: Danvet to keep gently poking daniels STATUS: Pending ITEM: Sponsored travel receipts from XDC2019 No new receipts yet ACTIONS: Eric to keep poking folks for travel receipts STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC X.org accepted this year, we now need to get some mentors for projects. ACTIONS: Trevor to start sending emails to various lists STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org X.org is running out of money, and at the current rate we're losing money we'd need to close CI by May or June this year in order to keep operating. Google offered to hire someone to admin fd.o so long as they get to pick who it is, board votes to approve. Board also votes to approve sending out announcement asking for sponsors onto the mailing lists ASAP. ACTIONS: Daniel Vetter to draft announcement asking for sponsors onto mailing lists. STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 Samuel volunteered to handle the XDC2020 website. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending