Summary of the 29 July 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, Harry Wentland,
Guests:
Absent: Keith Packard, Emma Anholt, Manasi Navare, Mark Filion,
Summary
Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2021, XDC2022, XDC2021 sponsors, HDMI 2.1, GSoC/Outreachy/EVoC, invoice from decommissioning server, Gitlab Commit
Items discussed
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status No updates here ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Requesting ledger data No updates here ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 We got one talk cancelled but it will be replaced by the first one in the rejected queue. Samuel has drafted the program, and their plan is plan is to publish it tomorrow. They noticed however that there are still talks pending for confirmation, so it won't be final until we get those. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2022 Samuel sent a reminder that the deadline for proposals is September 1st, 2021 ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: XDC2021 sponsors We have one sponsor tentatively committing for Gold, and two more who are trying to organize the money internally. ACTIONS: Danvet to keep poking sponsors STATUS: Pending ITEM: HDMI 2.1 Harry hasn't heard anything from the HDMI forum yet ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: GSoC/Outreachy/EVoC Lyude sent out the email looking for volunteers for this the week before last, haven't gotten any responses yet. ACTIONS: STATUS: Pending ITEM: Invoice from decommissioning server We had a request come in from the university that is still hosting some of the older X.org servers asking us what to do with some old hard drives from the server. This request got approved pre-maturely by mistake, so this vote was just to make sure we were on the same page about this. ACTIONS: STATUS: Done ITEM: Gitlab commit As part of our sponsorship agreement with Gitlab we will be hosting a virtual booth for X.org at Gitlab Commit. Lyude is currently working on coming up with the presentation for this. ACTIONS: Lyude to get presentation finished by tomorrow STATUS: Pending