Summary of the 26 March 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, Daniel Stone
Absent:
Summary
Agenda: VESA status, requesting ledger data from SPI, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, elections, XDC2020 sponsors, freedesktop.org cloud hosting, GSoC/EVoC
Reminders for folks tuning in via minutes!
Don't forget to renew your X.org membership, as elections are coming up and membership will be temporarily frozen after we start publishing candidates.
Items discussed
ITEM: VESA status Members should have gotten a DisplayPort 2.0 spec, and DP errata! ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI No update yet, might take a while with COVID stuff happening ACTIONS: Lyude to poke SPI STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing No updates yet :\ ACTIONS: Daniel and other relevant folks to keep poking STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Still no updates from SPI ACTIONS: Keith to keep poking SPI STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections We've received enough nominations that we should be able to start the elections on-time, hooray! ACTIONS: Proceed with elections as-planned STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors DISCLAIMER: Nothing scary has happened yet, no changes to the plans for XDC 2020 have been made. This is just so we have a cancellation policy for sponsors if something COVID related were to cause problems in the upcoming months. Daniel added a section on cancellations to our sponsorship levels. Board voted to approve statement. ACTIONS: Daniel to keep haggling sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org Good news - we've poked potential freedesktop.org sponsors and are in discussion with them. As well, thanks to our volunteer admin Benjamin Tissoires we now have logging for CI. Additionally, we've managed to dramatically decrease our resource usage for many of our largest projects and our CI registry usage is almost as low as we can take it. Some resource hogs still need to be addressed, but we're working on doing so. ACTIONS: Benjamin and other freedesktop.org admins to continue working on decreasing our CI costs, Daniel and others to keep poking sponsors. STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC We have three proposals for mentors to review, and the final proposal deadline is March 31st. Google is tweaking some of the timeline due to the COVID pandemic, mentors get an extra week for review. Also, we're looking into Google's other program "Season of Docs" ACTIONS: Mentors to review proposals STATUS: Pending