X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2017-02-02

[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,
Egbert Eich,
Rob Clark,

Absent:

Keith Packard,

Guest: Kat

## Summary

Agenda: gsoc, paper committee writeup, khronos, elections, membership agreement,
financial records, board wiki

gsoc: Still need to do the application, and everyone who would like to mentor or
has project ideas: Please update the wiki!

https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/

xdc16 paper committee feedback write-up, comments welcome:

https://www.x.org/wiki/PapersCommittee/

elections: renewals are progressing. most likely we'll also have an updated
membership agreement ready to vote on this election.

Daniel away for next mtg, Egbert to be secretary.

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: Gsoc
Application needs to be done until 9th. Also still need more/updated project
ides. Kat & Rob volunteered to help out with admin duties. Kat mentioned that
there's also a 500$ stipend for successful students to attend conferences like
XDC.
ACTIONS: Martin to complete application and add admins.
ACTIONS: Martin to send out reminder mail
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: khronos
SPI replied, but no answer yet.
ACTIONS: Daniel to keep pinging SPI
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: elections
Need to wait 30 days after membership expiration, next step pushed back to 19th
Feb. Board wiki for election process notes still down. Alex copied things over
to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/
ACTIONS: Alex&Peter are on it.
ACTIONS: Alex will send out a renewal reminder on the usual lists.
ACTIONS: Robclark to resurrect the board wiki
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: updated membership agreement
Robclark edited it to taste (we haven't updated it since over 10 years), one
tiny edit still discussed on irc.
ACTIONS: Every board member: Please read final version and vote on board@
ACTIONS: Robclark to send out final pdf/sha1 for review
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: financial records
Bryce waiting for review on his branch at ssh://gabe.freedesktop.org/srv/bod.x.org/archives.git encrypt-financials
ACTIONS: Board members to send gpg keys to bryce for encryption.
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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