Summary of the 12 March 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Daniel Vetter, Lyude Paul, Manasi Navare, Bryce Harrington, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez (but they did leave an update on the XDC2020 website)
Summary
Agenda: VESA status, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, sponsored travel receipts for XDC2019, freedesktop.org domain transfer status, requesting ledger data from SPI, elections, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, GSoC/EVoC, COVID-19, XDC2020 sponsors, using Gitlab to track X.org issues, XDC2020 website update
Items discussed
ITEM: VESA status Sean Paul helped Lyude figure out why all of her emails to VESA were getting picked up by spam, and we managed to get in contact with them finally! Members who signed up can expect to see DP 2.0 in their mailboxes soon :), and hopefully we can get more specs in the future. ACTIONS: Lyude to continue talking with X.org STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing ARM re-blocked, Intel still suck ACTIONS: Anholt to keep poking ARM + Intel STATUS: Pending ITEM: Sponsored travel receipts for XDC2019 All receipts have been reimbursed and closed as of last week ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: Freedesktop.org domain transfer status No updates yet ACTIONS: Keith to keep poking SPI about this STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI No updates yet ACTIONS: Lyude to poke SPI again STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections We're in the nominations period of elections, and membership can now be renewed. We still need a few more nominations from people in order to keep up with the election schedule. ACTIONS: Play the waiting game, and extend things if we need more time for sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org We're in talks with a few more potential sponsors, and have had some volunteer admins step up (thanks yall!). ACTIONS: Board to keep up with sponsor discussions STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC We're now in the gathering mentors stage, we currently have 4 (possibly 5) mentors and 2 admins. Also have a few students who seem interested. Starting on March 16th we'll be in the "student application period". ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: COVID-19 Board discussed what would happen if XDC2019 were impacted by COVID-19 in October. DISCLAIMER: Nothing scary has happened yet, no changes to the plans for XDC 2020 have been made. This was a discussion just to make sure we're prepared if something changes in the upcoming months. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors Danvet kicked up a pile of mails and contacts. ACTIONS: Danvet to follow up again with sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Using Gitlab to track X.org issues A formal fd.o vote on Gitlab got forgotten last summer by mistake, so the board would like to start tracking official org issues on Gitlab to prevent things like that from happening again in the future. Board votes to approve. ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: XDC2020 website update Samuel asked Jonathan Corbet to create the Indico website for the conference. Gave organizers the XDC twitter details. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending