X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2015-10-15

[Daniel Vetter]

These are the meeting minutes the X.Org Board of Directors [1] meeting.
Minutes and IRC logs are published on the wiki [2, 3].

The X.Org board meets every two weeks on Thu/Fri (depending on your
timezone) in the #xf-bod IRC channel on irc.oftc.net. Please refer to the
X.Org Google calendar [3] for time and date of the next meeting.

For any issues that need to come to the attention of the board please email
me or board at foundation.x.org and we will add it to the agenda for the next
meeting.

[1] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors
[2] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries
[3] http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/IrcLogs
[4]
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nl1n1fmvu091eqh35ldqspar80@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Brisbane
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== Disclaimer ==
Best efforts are made to ensure the below is accurate and valid. However,
errors sometimes happen. If any errors or omissions are found, please bring
them to my or the board's attention.


## Attendees

Present:
Peter Hutterer,
Martin Peres,
Alex Deucher,
Daniel Vetter,
Matt Dew,
Egbert Eich,
Rob Clark,

Absent:

Keith Packard,

## Summary

Agenda: bylaws, evoc, travel, expo.x.org, xdc2016

Evoc payements straigthened out.

XDC payments for travel all done, Seneca still pending.

Bylaws still pending vote on board at .

Expo migration made (a) little progress.

XDC 2016: One proposal for Helsink, secretary will send an RFP and board will
vote in 2 weeks.

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: Evoc payments
First payment to Juliet didn't go through, but with new account details the
2nd attempt was successful, using Juliet's aunt's US account.
DECISION: Future payements will go through the US account
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC Payements
Marke/Jake now paid, still waiting for Senaca to send a bill. Tom hasn't
received the bill from Senaca yet either.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: bylaws/spi
Still missing acks from half the board like last time around ...
Some discussions about when to ask SPI so that their offer to join arrives when
we're ready to vote. Not yet time for that.
ACTIONS: Look at mail on board@ and ack.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: expo migration
Effort fizzled out again after contacting fd.o admins (Daniel Stone).
ACTIONS: Rob Clark to ping Daniel Stone again for both mailing lists and mail
sending account (tls/smtp).
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: gsoc
Peter brough up gsoc quickly, but according to Alex we only need to start taking
action in Feb.
STATUS: Done

ITEM: XDC 2016
We have one proposal from Intel for XDC 2016 in Helsinki.
DECISION: Send a more formal RFP to usual mailing lists in case there's more
potential organizers and then vote in the next board mtg.
ACTION: Daniel to send out that mail as secratary.
STATUS: Pending
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch