X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2018-01-18

[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 [4] 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=US/Pacific

== 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:

Alex Deucher,
Daniel Vetter,
Bryce Harrington,
Keith Packard,
Rob Clark,
Taylor Campbell,
Egbert Eich,

Absent:

Martin Peres,

## Summary

Agenda: gsoc, treasurer's report, xdc date, election

Gsoc org application deadline 23rd Jan, ready mentoring projects!

Elections, we need candidates for the board again!

XDC18 will be 26-28th Sept

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: gsoc
Martin+Taylor volunteer for org admin, Alex volunteers to help out.
No student travel request for fosdem.
ACTIONS: Martin will submit the application tonight-ish.
ACTIONS: Martin check with Igalia for visa invitation letters (we'll probably
need them).
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: treasure report
Blocked on SPI sending updated data
ACTIONS: Bryce is on it
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: xdc date
Igalia propsed 26-28th Sept, that seems to fit fairly well with other
conferences (and this year doesn't clash with the khr f2f!). Board votes to go
with that.
STATUS: Done

ITEM: elections
Egbert decided to not re-run, big kudos for all his time on the board. Election
committee is Rob, Martin, Taylor, Egbert and Daniel. Tentatively Rob+Taylor to
run the show.
Election procedure docs: https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/
ACTIONS: Rob+Taylor to roll the process, starting with membership expiry.
ACTIONS: Need to start finding candidates
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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