Summary of the 11 February 2021 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 (with updates!), XDC2020 invoices status, cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2021, XDC2021 sponsors, XDC2022, HDMI 2.1, elections, GSoC/Outreachy, and X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
Items discussed
ITEM: Requesting ledger data Finally some updates! Lyude attended the SPI meeting on February 8th, SPI said there haven't been updates since January and that they're going to have someone else start taking a look at the issue. So hopefully we should be hearing more on this soon. ACTIONS: Lyude to poke new person from SPI as needed STATUS: Pending ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org From bentiss's report: The switch to packet was successful, there were some hiccups in regards to uptime along the way but that should be fixed now. There's still some work remaining, the last thing bentiss was up to was kicking out the useless pods on GKE and turning off one VM. This should end up freeing up around ~$1000/month just by switching to a single VM. The next tough part is going to be migrating gitlab pages to the new cluster, as bentiss does not want to port a container that uses 50GB of ram just for pages. The final bit worth mentioning is that unfortunately, bentiss did have to revert caching of the container registry. They're going to try to figure out another way of making that work again over the next few weeks. ACTIONS: Bentiss to keep up the excellent work! STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 invoices status Intel PO is in the system, but not approved yet. ACTIONS: Manasi to follow up with intel, after which Martin can send the invoice to Intel and get paid for XDC 2020. STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 sponsors Danvet waiting for Intel to confirm their sponsoring or not before hunting more XDC2021 sponsors ACTIONS: Danvet to get response from Intel and continue search STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 Mupuf is still working on the website container deployment (setup the containers, opening TCP ports, etc), and integrate sponsor box to the website as well. The plan is to have it in March. Once that's done, we can begin filling it and and start preparing the CfP. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2022 Samuel hasn't yet had a chance to start sending emails to potential XDC organizers quite yet. ACTIONS: Samuel to try sending emails soon, hopefully next week. STATUS: Pending ITEM: HDMI 2.1 Harry Wentland sent out an email with their letter to the HDMI Forum for review, but gmail seems to have intercepted it and marked as spam for most people on the board so no one actually saw it. This should hopefully be fixed now. ACTIONS: Board to review email STATUS: Pending ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status No updates ACTIONS: Lyude and Simon to keep poking SPI STATUS: Pending ITEM: Elections The elections committe has come up with a schedule, and Harry has started a new 2021-2022 membership period and sent an email to remind people to renew their membership. ACTIONS: Harry to start hunting for nominations ITEM: GSoC/Outreachy Trevor heard back from one student regarding GSoC, but no mentors yet or volunteers to help update various projects given the new constraints for GSoC 2021\. Outreachy is looking potentially more interesting nowadays due to having a much longer work period (12 weeks), and double the stipend. On X.org's side though, we'll need to have ready-made tasks for applicants. Deadline for this is on March 1st if we decide we're interested. ACTIONS: