Summary of the 23 April 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Reminders
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Attendees
Present: Daniel Vetter, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez, Lyude Paul, Bryce Harrington, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent: Manasi Navare,
Summary
Agenda: Requesting ledger data from SPI, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, elections, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2020 website, XDC2020 sponsors, Google Season of Docs
Items discussed
ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI Finally got a response from SPI: At the SPI board meeting in November there were other dependencies that needed to be worked on first, those being: 0. Improve SPI infrastructure: We are currently finalizing legal details to hire a contractor to work on that. 1. Decide on the move from ledger to beancount: It was decided that beancount was a better tool for SPI purposes, so we have been moving to beancount. Since Martin has done very good progress on the move from ledger to beancount, SPI board might need to re-evaluate priorities soon, and we are a step closer to provide what you are asking for but it might still take some more time. ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing ARM thought they paid but no money has been received yet, no word from Intel yet. ACTIONS: Eric to keep poking ARM/Intel STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Still no update from SPI ACTIONS: Keith to keep poking, Lyude to try secretary poke again STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections 60% odd turnout so far, reminders sent out to folks who haven't voted yet. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org Benjamin Tissoires has been super busy getting traffic data for nginx and setting that all up, so we now track compute engine network egress, and is working with Daniel Stone to upgrade infra for this where needed. The work from projects has been paying off, and network egress overall is on a good downward trend (not stopped yet). Costs prediction for April is less then half of what it was in January. More work for optimizing this further is still underway. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 website The organizers now have edition rights to the website and the XDC twitter account login details. They should start updating the content at both places at some point. ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors No updates for the moment ACTIONS: Danvet to keep poking potential sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Google Season of Docs Trevor suggested making one of our possible projects for GSoD be to convert as much documentation on X.org projects as possible over to Sphinx. ACTIONS: Trevor to send an email to relevant mailing lists to try to get a better idea of the scope for this project. STATUS: Pending