X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2021-07-15

[Lyude Paul]

One small correction below:

On Thu, 2021-07-15 at 16:41 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> 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,
> Emma Anholt,
> Harry Wentland,
> 
> Guests:
> 
> Absent:
> Keith Packard,
> Mark Filion,
> 
> ## Summary
> 
> Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2021
> invoices status, XDC2021, XDC2022, XDC2021 sponsors, HDMI 2.1,
> GSoC/Outreachy/EVoC, sharing of non-redistributable game traces within X.org
> members, equinox meeting
> 
> ## Items discussed
> 
> [[!format txt """
> ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
> No updates here yet
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Requesting ledger data
> Received an update from SPI (without having to poke them!) saying that
> they've
> looking into providing ledger reports now. Additionally, they sent us the
> treasurer's report for X.org for 2020.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021 invoices status
> Danvet has been pinging potential sponsors, we got Khronos confirmed again
> as a
> sponsor
> ACTIONS: Danvet to keep poking
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: GSoC/EVoC/Outreachy
> Lyude finally had a chance to send out an email about this yesterday,
> waiting
> for responses (hopefully) now
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021 invoices status/XDC2021 sponsors
> Linux Foundation and Khronos Sponsorship confirmed, Manasi requested an
> invoice
> for Krhonos, and poked Intel on creating a PO after which they can be
> invoiced
> by SPI.
> ACTIONS: Manasi will request an invoice from the Linux Foundation earlier
> today,
> Daniel to keep poking sponsors.
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021
> Closed the CFP after extending it for a couple of days, and finally got
> enough
> talks to cover the three days of the conference. We got some very cool talks
> this year by the way!
> We received a total of 16 full-slot talks and 8 half-slot talks. On top of
> that
> we received 2 workshops, 3 lightning talks, and 0 demos at this moment. We
> still
> welcome submissions for lightning talks and demos!
> CFP committee is almost done reviewing the talks. The plan is to finish
> reviewing all talks by this week, and next week we can start accepting talks
> together while preparing the final version of the program. Organizers are
> finishing up the speakers document as well, which we will hopefully send
> together with the acceptance of the talks.
> Other things about the conference: organizers are still testing big blue
> internally. they are still undecided if jitsi+youtube like last year would
> be
> better, or if we should use big blue button.
> Samuel will also be off for the whole month of august on vacation, so Lyude
> will
> be taking over responding to XDC questions from presenters for them during
> this
> time.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2022
> No updates
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: HDMI 2.1
> No update from the HDMI consortium on this yet
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: Sharing of non-redistributable game traces within X.org members
> SPI didn't think that they could do anything that would make the process of
> getting people to sign NDAs any easier, so we're proceeding with enabling
> closed
> traces on a driver team basis with responsible members of those teams having
> access.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending Done

This should have said STATUS: Done

> 
> ITEM: Equinix meeting
> Skipped this since Mark is on vacation
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> """]]

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat