X.Org Board Meetings: Summary for Feb. 14, reminder for Feb. 28

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Feb 27 15:52:08 EST 2011


The next meeting of the X.Org Board of Directors will be tomorrow, Monday
February 28, at 2pm US/Pacific in the #xf-bod channel on the OFTC IRC network.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=02&day=28&year=2011&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=224

A summary of the February 14 meeting follows - this summary
and the full IRC logs are also available at:
	http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries/2011/02-14

Also - if you haven't voted in the X.Org Elections yet for the board members
for the coming year, don't forget - polls close in approximately 27 hours!
	http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/2011

=== Board Member Attendance ===

 * Present:  Eric Anholt, Donnie Berkholz, Alan Coopersmith,
		Alex Deucher, Matthieu Herrb, Bart Massey
 * Absent:   Matthias Hopf, Keith Packard

=== Reports, Discussion & Decisions ===

==== Election Committee ====

The final slate of 6 candidates was posted to the members mailing list.

==== Treasurer Status ====

Stuart reported that HSBC is processing the paperwork to get him the
electronic security device to access the accounts online.

==== Bylaw Amendments ====

The board members agreed it was too late to try to get bylaw amendments in
for this election, and that we should continue working to determine what
to change for a future vote.

Raising the per-company limit from 2 members to 3 was suggested for
consideration in the bylaw amendments, as that still keeps any company
from having a majority of board members.

==== SFLC Donation ====

Search of the past minutes found discussion of SFLC donations but no vote on
an actual donation amount.   Donnie suggested an initial donation of $7500,
and an ongoing annual pledge of $2000.   The board unanimously voted in favor.

==== X.Org Machine hosting at MIT ====

Freedesktop.org is getting new hardware and has offered to transfer the
services from expo.x.org, which is currently hosted at MIT, to a virtual
machine on one of their new systems.   This would allow the Foundation to
stop paying MIT for hosting of aging hardware systems.

The board voted to accept this offer.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System














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