X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-02-18

[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://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors
[2] http://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries
[3] http://www.xorg-foundation.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,
Alex Deucher,
Daniel Vetter,
Egbert Eich,
Keith Packard,
Rob Clark,
Martin Peres,

Absent:

Matt Dew,

## Summary

Agenda: logo request, x.org woes, gsoc, voting, outreachy, evoc payement

x.org woes being addressed, meanwhile www.xorg-foundation.org (without www. it
redirects to mailman because of the ad-hoc mail setup)
https://members.xorg-foundation.org (the https:// is important) and
{secretary,board,members}@xorg-foundation.org serve as intermediate names for
the same old servers - it's just a DNS issue because the DNS server died.

Gsoc started, need ideas! http://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/

## Items discussed

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ITEM: request to use logo derived from X.org logo
Egbert looked at it, board votes to decline
ACTIONS: Daniel to send mail with decision
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: x.org woes
Daniel handling this with Leon, with the great help of fd.o admins. Leon on
vacation but will try to update dns records as soon as possible.
ACTIONS: Daniel to handle with Leon
ACTIONS: Peter to ping Daniel Stone to fix up the plain xorg-foundation.org
redirect to point at www.xorg-foundation.org
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: elections
All ready using the fallback domains to proceed. Peter sent out an election
howto for posterity to board at . Concers about proceeding while x.org is down,
will stall if x.org isn't in working shape again by the time the nomination
period starts (on 22th Feb).
ACTIONS: Peter to start nomination on 22th Feb (if x.org is working again), or
as soon as x.org works after that date. Secretary enjoys snowboarding meanwhile.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: gsoc
Started, need to fill in ideas: http://www.xorg-foundation.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/
ACTIONS: Alex to send out announcement to (more) mailing lists.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: outreachy
Discussed at length on board@, summary is that it's complicated and there's some
serious challenges to make outreachy work. If we can figure these out, maybe
next year another attempt. Help and ideas very much welcome.
ACTION: Peter&Daniel to chat more with Sarah
STATUS: Done
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch