SPI invited X.Org to join as Associated Project

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:28:52PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:11:43 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> 
> > What i read all the time is "the other kids do SPI too", not "we have to 
> > give up domain, servers, all other assets".
> > 
> With the X.Org legal entity going away, SPI becomes the legal entity
> that holds those assets.  It holds them *on behalf of X.Org*, though,
> meaning it will do what the X.Org board decides, as long as that's
> within the 501c3 rules.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

Again, what i am saying is, all i have seen is, "but everyone else does 
it too". I have not seen a solid write-up of things, and definitely did 
not notice "but we have to give up _all_ assets". There really has been 
a severe lack of information on the whole SPI thing.

Although we can be very glad that we do have public irc meetings and 
nicely condensed minutes (things used to be quite different before 
2010), they do not tell us what the boardmembers involved with the 
initial push to SPI learned during that process, and what this truly 
means for the Xorg foundation. Only very little of that trickled through 
in the minutes, and referring to them is not a good substitute.

Luc Verhaegen.