X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2019-03-14

[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:
Daniel Vetter,
Rob Clark,
Eric Anholt,
Harry Wentland,
Bryce Harrington,

Absent:

Taylor Campbell,
Keith Packard,
Martin Peres,

## Summary

Agenda: elections, gsoc, treasurer report, xdc sponsors, xdc19 website, weblink
sponsors

Upcoming election:
- 6 candidates running for the Board election!
- fd.o + x.org merger bylaw vote (requires 2/3rd of all members to approve,
  we'll need every vote)

Gsoc student applications start 25th March

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: elections
Board candidates announced, but a fumble with the bylaw change ommitted.
Election commmittee decides to delay voting start by 1 week.
ACTIONS: Harry to send out new mail to highlight bylaw vote and announce
election timeline change.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: gsoc
Studen application will start 25th Mar.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: treasurer report
Some minor differences still to reconcile with SPI's report. Reconciling
previous years tricky since we don't have a public record of treasuere mails.
Should that be an ML?
ACTIONS: Eric keeps ramping up and working on the report.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: xdc sponsors
Daniel distracted with vacations.
ACTIONS: Daniel to get started pinging potential sponsors for xdc19
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: xdc19 website
Plan is to use indico (same as lpc) for xdc19, for a better cfp process. Marting
missed the meeting because DST, so no updates
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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