Summary of the 30 July 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Note: a couple of folks had to leave the meeting early, so we didn't have full quorom for some of the votes
Present: Daniel Vetter, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez, Lyude Paul, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent: Manasi Navare, Mark Filion, Keith Packard,
Summary
Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, XDC2020 sponsors, GSoC/EVoC, XDC2020, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, requesting ledger data from SPI, X.org and Gitlab Commit, self-hosting Indico website
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Lyude sent an email to the SPI board yesterday, no response. ACTIONS: Lyude is going to start poking harder, and probably start poking other SPI board members. STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors Eric has successfully invoiced some sponsors, Danvet has attempted some pokes for potential sponsors. ACTIONS: Danvet to keep poking sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC We are in the second evaluations phase. All evaluations are complete, our student is doing very well. Starting next week we enter the 3rd (and last) work period which finishes at the end of august. Also, one of our past students will be giving a talk at XDC ACTIONS: Trevor to keep working w/ GSoC STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 We have filled all slots of the schedule, and we're currently awaiting for talk confirmations from some of the speakers. We're also discussing with organizers about how the platform should look like. CFP is still open just in case some folks cannot give their respective talk at the end. And, we'd also like to encourage people to submit workshops, demo proposals, and lightning talks. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for Freedesktop.org We managed to get a sponsor to offer to provide machines for us, hooray! That should fix the host bleeding. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing SPI finally managed to post their invoice to Intel, so hopefully they're almost done paying finally. ACTIONS: Wait and be hopeful STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting Ledger Data from SPI Board has decided we really want a ledger data feed to keep track of what's going on with finances, and are willing to help out with costs where we can. ACTIONS: Lyude to send another formal inquiry to SPI to ask about this again STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC and GitLab Commit Activities Gitlab asked if we would be interested in having someone attend their free conference and vice-versa. ACTIONS: Samuel to review the proposal, tabled till next meeting STATUS: Pending ITEM: Self hosting Indico website This came up because Lyude noticed that there's meta html tags on the XDC2020 website that make it so applications like Telegram think XDC2020 is in fact, LPC 2019 in disguise. We'd need to self host our Indico website to fix this, and doing so would also make keeping the website up to date much easier. Additionally, we'll need to find some more sysadmin volunteers. ACTIONS: Voting on this tabled till next meeting STATUS: Pending