X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-08-18

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 10/11/16 05:35 PM, 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..)

Sorry, I've been swamped at work (as you may have seen by my not attending
XDC this year), and hadn't gotten to it yet.

> 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..)

It doesn't - in past years it's usually been either mine or Martin's
depending on who was posting first.

> 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.

I've done that on the twitter account now, as can be seen at:
   https://twitter.com/XOrgFoundation

While I continue to serve as the twitter account maintainer at the
Board's pleasure, much of the Board also has access if they want to
use it, or if they'd like to bring on others to help.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc