X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-08-18

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> There in fact was a longer deliberation about whether to sponsor the golem.de
> coverage and the reasons for the denial is worth mentioning here:
> - Golem.de is a German publication and therefore reaches only a limited audience
>   (Google Translate was not considered a viable way to 'internationalize' the
>   articles).
> - The audience of Golem is of course different and less technical than the one
>   of LWN - the Phoronix' coverage of XDC for essentially the same audience was
>   also mentioned in this context: It seemed to be unfair to sponsor Golem.de as
>   Phoronix was never sponsored (of course Michael had never asked).
>
> All this can be found on in the IRC logs.

Quick addition from my side: The board did leave open to sponsor
Sebastian as part of the normal travel sponsoring for presenters (like
everyone else), but postponed that decision until it was clear whether
Sebastian's talk was accepted. This year we've gotten a lot of
submissions and had an over-full programm even before the deadline was
there, and Martin Peres&I (serving as the papers committee for xdc
helsinki) had to throw out or at least reduce in scope&time a lot of
talks unfortunately, simply due to lack of time.

Sebestian's talk didn't make the cut, but Martin&I discussed for well
over half an hour, reading/watching an earlier recording of
Sebestian's talk, but ultimaltely decided to reject it. I don't want
to share those reasons with everyone here, but we did write Sebastian
a mail with those reasons and what we think would be a talk better
suited for XDC (for next year). If you know Sebastian I'm sure he's
willing to share that mail with you.

I think this is the first time we had to reject even talks submitted
in time, and it's definitely not an easy decision, and definitely not
one we made lightly.

Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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