X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-08-18

[Peter Hutterer]

[Replying so it hits the members@ archives, no content changed]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:35:56PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 09:22:39AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >> On 09/ 1/16 04:17 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >> >LWN articles are free after one week and for that time can be accessed
> >> >through SubscriberLinks which I think we've published last year over G+ and
> >> >Twitter (I did not check, but that's the plan for this year anyway).
> >>
> >> As the X.Org Twitter maintainer I can confirm that this is correct, and was
> >> done with the blessing of LWN.  For example, from XDC 2015:
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/XOrgFoundation/status/652154909521936384
> >> https://twitter.com/XOrgFoundation/status/646852355690917888
> >> https://plus.google.com/+XOrgFoundationOfficial/posts/AviiDnjmSPr
> >> https://plus.google.com/+XOrgFoundationOfficial/posts/VCA3yLyAqBX
> >>
> >
> > So where are these "essentially the XDC proceeedings" non-paywall
> > things this time? I see 2 posts about 2 talks, and no twitter subscriber
> > links.
> 
> hmm, looks like this possibly fell through the cracks.. personally,
> I'm still catching up on $dayjob (was at linaro conf the week after
> XDC so was out for two weeks).  I don't really follow twitter, and not
> sure if these were posted on G+ (but if they were I would have missed
> them.. the whole being in catch-up mode thing..)
> 
> A couple are already non-subscriber links.  The rest are subscriber
> links that I generated from my own lwn account.  (Not sure if it
> matters who's account we use to generate the links we share.. I assume
> not..)
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/702021/
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/702339/824eb353e632b642/
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/702563/8d0f1bee71fb1ba1/
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/702998/9eedff9aed5a9bd5/
> 
> I can't guarantee that I didn't miss any, this was just from a quick
> look.. looks like the last one was posted just today so they are still
> trickling out.
> 
> Martin and Alan control the G+ and twitter accounts, iirc, so they
> will have to be the ones to share the links publicly.  Assuming it
> doesn't matter who generates the subscriber links, they can just
> cut/paste from above.
> 
> BR,
> -R
> 
> > I understand the german only thing as a reason to refuse golem.de, but
> > really, this is pushing it.
> >
> > If you really want to solely support lwn, why not buy a group
> > subscription for x.org members? That would be less unilateral, and much
> > more useful.
> >
> > Luc Verhaegen.