X.Org Board Meetings: Summaries for Aug 17, Aug 31 reminder

[Alan Coopersmith]

The next meeting of the X.Org Board of Directors will be today,
at 2pm US/Pacific in the #xf-bod channel on the OFTC IRC network.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=31&year=2010&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=224

A summary of the August 17 meeting follows - this summary and the
full IRC log are also available at:

http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries/2010/08-17

=== Board Member Attendance ===

 * Present: Eric Anholt, Donnie Berkholz, Alan Coopersmith, Alex Deucher,
	Matthieu Herrb, Matthias Hopf, Bart Massey
 * Absent:  Keith Packard

=== Discussion & Decisions ===

==== GSoC Hardware Reimbursement ====

Matt Turner asked if the board could reimburse him for approximately $65
worth of video cards purchased for his Google Summer of Code project to
add KMS support to the glint driver and document KMS in the process.
The Board approved this request.

==== 501(3)c Conversion ====

Alex is still gathering required information, delayed by the outage in
board mail delivery.

==== XDS 2010 ====

Intel has offered to donate funding to the foundation in support of XDS 2010.

The board voted to use some of this funding to approve 4 travel sponsorship
requests it had received.

==== X.Org logo ====

It was brought to the board's attention that a Brazilian cable company
is using a logo that looks remarkably similar to the X.Org logo
(though better rendered).  The board is unsure of the trademark status
or ownership of the X.Org logo through the chain of X ownership since
the X Consortium, and it was suggested that it may be time to create a
new logo with clear ownership we can trademark.

Bart suggested running a contest for a new logo design.   Since none of
the board members volunteered to organize this, Alan suggested this was
an area we could ask for a community volunteer to organize.

==== SFLC contribution ====

Bart raised the issue that the Software Freedom Law Center has done a lot
of legal work on behalf of the Foundation, especially around getting our
501(c)3 conversion completed, and that while the board had previously agreed
to make a donation to SFLC, it had never been made.   A contributition in
the range of $5000 - $10000 was discussed, but the issue was tabled for later
discussion.



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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System