Summary of the 13 August 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs
Attendees
Present: Daniel Vetter, Lyude Paul, Mark Filion, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent: Manasi Navare, Harry Wentland, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez,
Summary
Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, XDC2020 sponsors, requesting ledger data, GSoC/EVoC, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2020, XDC2021, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, self hosting Indico website, XDC and GitLab commit opportunities
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status No update yet from SPI, poked one of the SPI folks handling this directly on IRC and sent another email out to the board. ACTIONS: Lyude is just going to barge into the next SPI meeting on IRC and go from there STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors Daniel Vetter got one additional silver sponsor onboard, and has multiple others who they think they should be able to convince ACTIONS: Daniel to keep poking sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data Lyude got sidetracked and forgot to send an email to SPI about this ACTIONS: Lyude will get to sending email ASAP STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/EVoC Our student is doing well, and the next deadline is August 24th when final evaluations start. ACTIONS: Trevor to keep helping out with GSoC STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing No response from Intel yet since they received the invoice, but it sounds like the timeline we should expect at this point is around 60 days. ACTIONS: Eric to wait and poke if needed STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 The decision was made to use a combination of Jitsi, OBS, and IRC for hosting the conference virtually. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 Board voted to approve motion to open call for venue proposals for where to host XDC2021. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org Benjamin has been working to help prepare for moving over more services to Packet, we also found another potential hosting sponsor. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Self hosting indico website Samuel was absent, so we decided to postpone this item till next meeting. ACTIONS: Board will discuss at next meeting STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC and GitLab Commit Opportunities Samuel wanted to look over the proposal for this in more detail, so postponed until next meeting. ACTIONS: Board will discuss at next meeting STATUS: Pending