X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2016-08-18

[Egbert Eich]

I've sent this message over a week ago to clarify a matter mentioned in the
board meeting minutes.
Unfortunately, it never got to members@ as I was sending it from the wrong
email account. I've never realized that it hasn't made it there.
 I sincerely apologize.

Daniel Vetter writes:
 > 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.

There in fact was a longer deliberation about whether to sponsor the golem.de
coverage and the reasons for the denial is worth mentioning here:
- Golem.de is a German publication and therefore reaches only a limited audience
  (Google Translate was not considered a viable way to 'internationalize' the 
  articles).
- The audience of Golem is of course different and less technical than the one 
  of LWN - the Phoronix' coverage of XDC for essentially the same audience was 
  also mentioned in this context: It seemed to be unfair to sponsor Golem.de as 
  Phoronix was never sponsored (of course Michael had never asked).

All this can be found on in the IRC logs.

Egbert