X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-08-18

[Daniel Vetter]

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
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== 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,
Alex Deucher,
Daniel Vetter,
Bryce Harrington,
Egbert Eich,
Keith Packard,
Rob Clark,
Martin Peres,

Absent:

## Summary

Agenda: travel requests (Samuel & Sebastian), SPI transfer, financial records,
x.org, gsoc

SPI transfer moving ahead, rolling out donations pages&links now!

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: travel sponsoring
Flight for Samual Pitoiset for roughly 350 EUR approved.
Travel for Sebastion just for golem.de coverage denied. Board will reconsider
once the paper committee has made a decision whether to accept Sebastian's talk
or not (since it's not on a traditional XDC topic). Board also discussed the
travel sponsoring policy and clarified that an accepted talk is needed. There's
an exception for lwn-like in-depth coverage of the talks, since those are
essentially the XDC proceeedings.
ACTIONS: Daniel to reply to Samuel&Sebastian
ACTIONS: Bryce to clarify our travel sponsoring policy per the discussion.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: spi transfers
We can accept donations now! Bryce&Stuart will keep chasing the closure of the
X.org Foundation Delaware corp. Decision on where/how to store the financial
records is postponed, we might want to look into stuff like git-crypt.
ACTIONS: Bryce to update the wiki with sponsor links.
ACTIONS: Daniel to send the drafted closure paper to Bryce for handling taxes.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: gsoc
Running nominally, ending soon.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: x.org domain
No updates.
ACTIONS: Egbert to keep chasing.
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch