X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2021-09-30

[Lyude Paul]

Hey y'all, some corrections

On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 17:16 -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,
> Keith Packard,
> Emma Anholt,
> Harry Wentland,

This was incorrect, Mark Filion was present but Harry Wentland was absent

> 
> Guests:
> 
> Absent:
> Manasi Navare,
> Mark Filion,
> 
> ## Summary
> 
> Agenda: Thanks for bentiss, officer confirmation, X.org/freedesktop.org
> domain
> status, requesting ledger data, XDC2021 invoices status, XDC2021, XDC2022,
> GSoC/Outreachy/EVoC, MIPI Alliance and CSI
> 
> ## Items discussed
> 
> [[!format txt """
> ITEM: Thanks for Bentiss
> To thank Benjamin for all of their work, the board agreed to help expense a
> thank you dinner for them. Thanks for all of your hard work
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Done
> 
> ITEM: Officer confirmation/ledger data
> We welcomed our new treasurer, Eric Anholt! Additionally, some discussion
> was

Should say Emma

> had around timing concerns with sponsor invoicing, along with the board
> voting
> to allow SPI to handle keeping track of ledgers instead of doing it
> ourselves.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Done
> 
> ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
> No updates here
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021 invoices status
> Tabled to next meeting.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: XDC2021
> Samuel wrote up a blog post as both a summary of the conference and a kind
> of
> "thank you" card to organizers:
> https://blogs.igalia.com/siglesias/2021/09/24/X.Org-Developers-Conference-2021/
> Feeback was that media.ccc.de was very well received and people appreciated
> having a privacy-friendly open source platform alternative for following the
> talks. One suggestion to convert XDC to a hybrid conference, because of
> carbon
> footprint and such. A few complaints about the schedule but I think we did
> our
> best, since moving the schedule around would have been far too difficult.

Forgot to mention we also approved a reasonable budget to treat the XDC2021
organizers to a meal.

> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Done
> 
> ITEM: XDC2022
> Publically announced, no other updates.
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS: Done
> 
> ITEM: GSoC/Outreachy/EVoC
> No updates
> ACTIONS:
> STATUS:
> 
> ITEM: MIPI Alliance and CSI
> No updates
> ACTIONS: Lyude hopes to make time for this in the near future
> STATUS: Done
> """]]
> 

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