Summary of the 22 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, Mark Filion, Keith Packard, Eric Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests: Trevor Woerner
Absent:
Summary
Agenda: Requesting ledger data, X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2020 sponsor invoicing, XDC2021, XDC2020, GSoC, HDMI 2.1
Items discussed
ITEM: Requesting ledger data Surprise! Progress has finally been made, and SPI is setting up a meeting between Manasi, Lyude, SPI, and another project who is also interested in having a feed of ledger data as well. ACTIONS: Attend meeting STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status Finally got in contact with tpot, and are now in the process of setting up an account on Gandi. Once that's done, we can move forward with the technical side of things ACTIONS: Make an account on Gandi STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing Manasi was finally able to get Intel's payment through, and it should already be in SPI's account. Hooray ACTIONS: None! STATUS: Done! Finally! ITEM: XDC2020 sponsor invoicing Received some receipts from Intel Poland that need to be accounted for when invoicing for Intel for XDC2020, need to do some haggling with arm ACTIONS: Manasi to do some haggling with ARM STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 No updates ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 Individual talk videos still need to be uploaded to youtube ACTIONS: Samuel to poke con organizers STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC Some big changes to GSoC 2021 - duration down to 10 weeks from 12, 2 evaluations down from 3 (and the first one is optional), tasks expected to be worth 175 hours of student time (down from 350 hours), and student and org stipends cut in half. ACTIONS: Trevor to update ideas page on x.org wiki STATUS: Pending ITEM: HDMI 2.1 In short, the HDMI specification is no longer public. This is potentially a big issue for a lot of drivers (and definitely is for AMD's drivers) as a lot of these features are controlled in software by our kernel drivers. This basically means we can't have an open implementation of HDMI2.1 features. Harry proposed to send a request from X.org to the HDMI forum outlining the desire and benefits to publically disclose certain HDMI 2.1 spec information to enable open graphics/display stacks to implement support for them. ACTIONS: Harry to draft email and send to board for (fast) approval STATUS: Pending