[Members] Re: disconnect from board to active developers

[Alan Coopersmith]

Dave Airlie wrote:
> I'd like to ask the potential board members some questions...

Beyond Dave's questions, here's an even simpler one to illustrate how
far disconnected the board is:

   How is a community member/developer supposed to contact the board
   if they have a concern or want travel sponsorship?

There is no mention of the Board at all on www.x.org, and if you search
wiki.x.org you can find the Board meeting attendance lists in the meeting
summaries, but other than googling each board member's name and hoping you
can find their e-mails, how would they contact the board?   No contact
information is given anywhere that I could find.   (We struggled with this
a few months ago when trying to give one of the SoC students the board
contact to get funding for him to travel to DDC to meet the X development
community and had a very hard time doing so.)

> 4) These seems to be a major disconnect between the X.org and
> freedesktop.org organisations (particularly around security
> releases...), at times it seems like the board forgets that we have
> freedesktop.org hosting a lot of our services and goes and does things
> itself which usually would be much quicker done with fd.o support,

Why is it we have separate sets of mailman lists on lists.x.org and on
www.x.org?   Can't the board even use existing services run by our own
community members on machines with X.org domain names?

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