X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2020-02-27

[Lyude Paul]

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,
Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez,
Lyude Paul,
Manasi Navare,
Bryce Harrington,
Keith Packard,
Eric Anholt,
Harry Wentland,

Guests:
Trevor Woerner

Absent:


## Summary

Agenda: VESA status, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, X.org/Freedesktop.org domain
status, requesting ledger data from SPI, elections, cloud hosting for
freedesktop.org, GSoC/EVoC, XDC2020

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: VESA status
No update yet, Lyude was out on PTO last week and half of this week so didn't
get a chance to poke again.
ACTIONS: Lyude to poke VESA again and try to figure out what's going on
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing
ARM unblocked finally, Intel still stuck
ACTIONS: Anholt/Danvet to keep poking Intel
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: X.org/Freedesktop.org domain status
Still no updates :\
ACTIONS: Lyude and Keith to keep poking SPI
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Requesting ledger data from SPI
Haven't heard back yet
ACTIONS: Wait a little longer, and maybe poke next week if we still don't hear
anything back to see what the status of SPI's investigation is.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Elections
Elections still blocked on
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/244
ACTIONS: Danvet to keep gently poking daniels
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Sponsored travel receipts from XDC2019
No new receipts yet
ACTIONS: Eric to keep poking folks for travel receipts
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: GSoC/EVoC
X.org accepted this year, we now need to get some mentors for projects.
ACTIONS: Trevor to start sending emails to various lists
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org
X.org is running out of money, and at the current rate we're losing money we'd
need to close CI by May or June this year in order to keep operating. Google
offered to hire someone to admin fd.o so long as they get to pick who it is,
board votes to approve. Board also votes to approve sending out announcement
asking for sponsors onto the mailing lists ASAP.
ACTIONS: Daniel Vetter to draft announcement asking for sponsors onto mailing
lists.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020
Samuel volunteered to handle the XDC2020 website.
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending
"""]]