SPI invited X.Org to join as Associated Project

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:43:17AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> We'll get a summary sent out asap, in the meantime a few incomplete answers
> from the back of the head:
> - timeline: we have 90 days to accept the invitation, rest TBA
> - asset list still needs to be compiled, assets will be transferred to SPI.
>   we have 3 years after joining to do this. assets include domain names, a
>   bit of hardware (that's mostly outdated/unused) and other IP dating back
>   to the X Consortium that we're chasing up

Really? Wow. That smells an awful lot like the open group. Maybe Egbert 
can enlighten us all on what it took after the xfree86 fork to get x.org 
out of the claws of that defunct organization.

I am amazed though. It took the best part of a decade to finally become
501c3. It then took the best part of a quarter iirc to lose that status 
again, to have it reinstated afterwards with the help of SFLC. And then 
what seems like a clone of the open group is quickly ran off to.

> - the xorg treasurer (legal status) will be replaced by the spi treasurer.
>   all money including travel expenses will be reimbursed directly from SPI.
>   since we're already a 501c3, the rules of what we're allowed to spend
>   money on remain the same.

As for that hardware, when will the Xorg foundation finally become more 
than just an organization that lives to support itself and use its 
budget to have servers professionally, reliably, and independently 
adminned?

Luc Verhaegen.