Summary of the 16 July 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, Mark Filion, Keith Packard, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner Daniel Stone,
Absent: Eric Anholt,
Summary
Agenda: X.org/Freedesktop.org domain status, XDC2020 sponsors, GSoC/EVoC, XDC2020, Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2021
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status No updates from SPI yet ACTIONS: Lyude will try filing another ticket with SPI STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors Daniel Vetter was able to send out some more sponsor emails, and some sponsors who previously said no said yes. We also managed to get some invoices paid ahead of time. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending Done ITEM: GSoC/EVoC Trevor sent out emails to recent GSoC students looking to see if they'd submit talks for XDC2020. We've gotten one proposal so far. As well, Trevor crunched some numbers and got some nice stats: 42 successful GSoC students ~43% (depends on parameters) contribute at least once after GSoC is over ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 At the moment we have 6 full-slot talks, 8 half-slot, 2 lightning talks, 0 demos and 0 workshops. CfP deadline is this Sunday. ACTIONS: Board motions to extend CfP until two weeks before the conference, or until we fill all the slots (whichever happens first) STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org No updates ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsor invoicing Eric was absent, so no updates ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 Ran out of time to have a full discussion, so voting was pushed off until next meeting. ACTIONS: Board will vote on location at next meeting STATUS: Pending