Summary of the 08 October 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, Keith Packard, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent: Mark Filion (but provided update on cloud hosting afterwards), Eric Anholt,
Summary
Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2020 sponsor invoicing, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2020, XDC2021, Self hosting for Indico website, GSoC, Cloud hosting for Freedesktop.org
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Lyude ended up missing the monthly SPI meeting last month, so no update ACTIONS: Lyude to attend meeting at October 12th STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data Lyude ended up missing the monthly SPI meeting last month, so no update ACTIONS: Lyude to attend meeting at October 12th STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 sponsor invoicing Manasi is in the process of being handed off treasurer responsibilities. Will be sending invoice to ARM soon, also received some receipts from Radek that need to be subtracted from Intel's invoice ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing Still no updates from Intel ACTIONS: Manasi to keep poking Intel about paying STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 Virtual XDC went flawlessly, everyone seemed happy with it. Organizers are working on uploading a separate video of each talk. We also documented requirements for virtual conferences in our RFP. Feedback is still open, don't forget to submit yours! ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 RFP is still open and we're looking for organizers, feel free to submit your proposals! ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Self hosting for indico website Not much to say here, board agrees to poke sysadmins to see if they'd have the time for this. ACTIONS: Samuel will discuss this with fd.o admins directly STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC Trevor will be attending the virutal GSoC mentor summit on October 15th for the first time. Mark Filion pointed out a per-org initiative to increase contributors happening this month, Trevor is unsure whether or not they'll have the time to participate. ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org Mark has started looking at how to refresh X.org to have a more modern look, and be able to give visibility to our current (and future) infra sponsors. ACTIONS: Mark to keep up the good work! STATUS: Pending