X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2015-07-23

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:43:50PM +1000, Peter Hutterer 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 [3] 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=Australia/Brisbane
> 
> == 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:
>     Peter Hutterer, Rob Clark, Martin Peres, Alex Deucher
>     Daniel Vetter, Matt Dew
> 
> Absent:
>     Egbert Eich, Keith Packard
> 
> == Summary ==
> 
> == Items discussed ==
> ITEM: bylaw changes
> Couple of minor changes discussed to the bylaws. We currently have a maximum
> of 2 board members from the same company, this has on a few occasions in the
> past been too small. Option to change it to 3 discussed (5 yay 1 nay), we'll
> discuss again when Keith/Egbert are back.
> This limit was put in place when companies had more influence on X.Org's
> (technical) direction than now, it is unlikely to be an issue now
> ACTIONS: Discuss/revote when Keith and Egbert are bck
> STATUS: Pending

There is enough diversity in the Xorg community that this should not be 
a problem. Perhaps the election committee should be more active in 
pursuing potential candidates. I suggest several almost every year (i 
seem to be the only one who even bothers to do so), only this year it 
actually worked as Egbert actively went and poked those that i had
suggested.

Perhaps it is healthy to only allow the intels and redhats of this world 
to have 2 seats on the board. Let's not extend the oligopoly on the 
technical side to the .org as well. Yes, i clearly disagree with the 
historical view and especially the very weakly worded supposed current 
situation.

Luc Verhaegen.