X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-05-26

[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,
Alex Deucher,
Daniel Vetter,
Bryce Harrington,
Keith Packard,
Rob Clark,
Martin Peres,

Absent:

Egbert Eich,

## Summary

Agenda: gsoc, xdc, x.org, spi, servers, khronos

Gsoc: Started on Monday this week!

SPI merger ongoing.

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: Gsoc started
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC
Helsinki: Location looks good, snack buffer organized.
2017: First potential locations ...
ACTIONS: Martin to put recommended hotels onto the wiki this week.
ACTIONS: Daniel to send out RFP for 2017
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: spi merger
Money transfer a bit stalled. Bryce started with the work so we can accept
donations through SPI.
ACTIONS: Stuart&Bryce to keep working on this
ACTIONS: Stuart start a thread for transferring our bank balance.
ACTIONS: Stuart to dig out archive of financial reports.
ACTIONS: Daniel to figure out whether the secretary archives can be put onto an
fd.o server.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: x.org domain
No updates since Egbert is on holidays.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: server admin inquiry & khronos standars adoptor agreement
Board had an inquiry from server admins about some legal aspects of hosting
(dmca takedowns, cookie laws, privacy laws, ...)
Board had an inquiry from mesa folks about signing an adopter agreement with
Khronos, so that mesa would be able to ratify open source implementations of GL
properly.
ACTIONS: Daniel to forward to SPI board for counsel/consideration
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch