Summary of the 06 May 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, Mark Filion, Keith Packard, Emma Anholt, Harry Wentland,
Guests:
Absent: Manasi Navare,
Summary
Agenda: X.org & related domain status, XDC2020 invoices status, XDC2021, XDC2022, XDC2022 sponsors, HDMI 2.1, EVoC, sharing non-redistributable game traces within X.org members, equinox meeting
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org & related domain status We're now going through other related domains like fontconfig.org, cairographics.org, etc. to see what else needs to be renewed ACTIONS: Keith and Simon to figure out all of the domains we're currently hosting STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2020 invoices status Manasi wasn't present, so skipped for this meeting ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 Website is almost ready, registration form is done, CfP form done, copied relevant content from last year, and should have a DNS redirect on xdc2021.x.org in the near future. CFP announcement is already done, and the board voted to host this conference virtually this year. Also, we're updating the travel sponsorship policy to include virtual conference expenses (this change was approved last year but we never updated the policy content). The board also decided to go with the same XDC schedule as last year. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2022 We've finished the RfP draft and will send it along with the CfP announcement. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2022 sponsors Daniel had a chance to kick off sponsor nagging, we've already gotten Intel on board so far ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: HDMI 2.1 Harry wasn't able to find any email addresses for the HDMI forum so they sent the letter regarding HDMI 2.1 to their employer's VESA board member. Once that person gets back from vacation they should receive it. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: EVoC We had a student inquire about EVoC that didn't get answered, apparently we don't actually have anyone handling EVoC anymore and haven't had anyone in a while. ACTIONS: Trevor can't make the time committment to run it anymore, so Lyude is going to start an email thread with them + the board to see what they suggest if we should continue EVoC and if so, what we need to do in order to bring the project back online. Once we have a better idea of that, Lyude will send out announcements to try to find volunteers to help run the program if we decide to keep it going. NOTE: This isn't the end of student outreach for X.org! Regardless of the outcome for EVoC, the current goal for the board is to get X.org involved with outreachy for next year. STATUS: Pending ITEM: Sharing non-redistributable game traces within X.org members Tomeu from Collabora proposed an idea to the board where we would work with game companies (likely through a liason) in order to enable the sharing of api traces for non-redistributable video games so that they can be used for things like debugging and CI. We're not entirely clear on all the details for how we'll pull this off quite yet. ACTIONS: Anholt assigned to look into this with SPI and interested parties to see how we could do this STATUS: Pending ITEM: Equinox meeting We need to have a meeting with Equinox (formally Packet) to become familiar with them since they sponsor our cloud hosted services. ACTIONS: Mark Filion will set up a meeting with Equinox sometime this month STATUS: Pending