X.Org Foundation Status Update
Peter Hutterer
8 Oct 2014
X.Org Board of Directors
- Alan Coopersmith (Oracle)
- Alex Deucher (AMD)
- Egbert Eich (SuSE)
- Keith Packard (Intel)
- Martin Peres (University of Bordeaux)
- Matt Dew (Micron)
- Peter Hutterer (Red Hat), Secretary
- Stuart Kreitman (Oracle), Oracle
Birthdays
The X Window System has had the 30th birthday on 19 June
The X.Org Foundation has had the 10th birthday on 22 January
These modern times
- G+: X.Org Foundation
- Twitter: @XOrgFoundation
- YouTube: X.Org Foundation
Google Summer of Code
- 7 students accepted, 4 completed the project successfully
- "Expose NVIDIA's GPU graphics counters to the userspace", Samuel Pitoiset (Martin Peres)
- "Wacom Support for Wayland", Stephen Chandler Paul (Peter Hutterer)
- "WGL support in Waffle", Emil Velikov (Brian Paul)
- "Improve Compute Memory Pool", Bruno Jiménez (Tom Stellar)
- 2 students disappeared, one unable to stick to the milestones
EVoC
The Endless Vacation of Code is X.Org's GSoC equivalent, but unrestricted by timeframes.
- 2 projects, 1 successful
- "REclock - Reverse-engineer and implement NVA3/5/8 Voltage- and Frequency Scaling in Nouveau", Roy Spliet (Ilia Mirkin)
- 1 student unable to stick to the milestones
EVoC
- We need to handle EVoC better
- "Like GSoC" is too generic
- Unclear handling of EVoC applications
- Stricter deadlines
- being lenient is good, but hurts us when deadlines loom
- being flexible is good, but can be hard to justify to the public
- Stricter rules avoid bias (real and perceived)
- Better communication requirements with the Board
- Base requirements to hack on X.Org are high!
- Have stricter, well-defined rules on the wiki
Outreach Program for Women
OPW is a GSoC-like program for anyone who identifies as female.
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/
X.Org signed up for one paid participant in Round 9 (southern hemisphere's summer).
- Currently in the application period
- You can be a mentor or propose a project
- More participants possible if needed
SPI
Mostly the same state as last year:
- need to get new by-laws sorted out
- vote of the membership on the new by-laws
- list of assets
XDC
Many thanks to Martin for organising XDC!