X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-05-12

[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,
Bryce Harrington,
Keith Packard,
Rob Clark,

Absent:

Egbert Eich,

## Summary

Agenda: XDC, travel sponsoring, gsoc, SPI transition

Gsoc: community bonding time

SPI transion in progress

## Items discussed

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ITEM: travel sponsoring
Jake Edge (lwn) asked for sponsoring. Board approved. Also some questions from
our new board member Bryce on the policy that we use - it's lwn + presenters.
ACTIONS: Bryce to document our travel sponsoring policy on the wiki.
STATUS: Done

ITEM: XDC
No updates for Helsink. Board started to ponder where to hold XDC 2017 and who
could host it.
ACTIONS: Martin still needs to check out the room at the university.
ACTIONS: Martin needs to fill out the wiki.
ACTIONS: Martin to prepare the CFP.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: gsoc
GSoC community bonding time seems ok.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: SPI transition
Already listed as member project: http://spi-inc.org/projects/x.org/
Donations getting worked on, see http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/newprojects/
ACTIONS: Peter+Bryce to chase the secretary@ alias so that we can list that.
ACTIONS: Bryce to close tax filing open with Stuart.
ACTIONS: Bryce to figure out how to transfer our money (and close accounts).
ACTIONS: Bryce to update https://www.x.org/wiki/SponsorshipPage/
STATUS: Pending
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch