X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2017-02-02

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:04:43AM +0100, Daniel Vetter 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,
> Martin Peres,
> Alex Deucher,
> Daniel Vetter,
> Bryce Harrington,
> Egbert Eich,
> Rob Clark,
> 
> Absent:
> 
> Keith Packard,
> 
> Guest: Kat
> 
> ## Summary
> 
> Agenda: gsoc, paper committee writeup, khronos, elections, membership agreement,
> financial records, board wiki
> 
> gsoc: Still need to do the application, and everyone who would like to mentor or
> has project ideas: Please update the wiki!
> 
> https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/
> 
> xdc16 paper committee feedback write-up, comments welcome:
> 
> https://www.x.org/wiki/PapersCommittee/

Noticed I've misplaced this and quickly moved it under Events/ to the
other XDC notes:

https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/PapersCommittee/

For XDC organizers we also still have a page, too, from last year:

https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/RFP/

Cheers, Daniel

> 
> elections: renewals are progressing. most likely we'll also have an updated
> membership agreement ready to vote on this election.
> 
> Daniel away for next mtg, Egbert to be secretary.
> 
> ## Items discussed
> 
> [[!format txt """
> ITEM: Gsoc
> Application needs to be done until 9th. Also still need more/updated project
> ides. Kat & Rob volunteered to help out with admin duties. Kat mentioned that
> there's also a 500$ stipend for successful students to attend conferences like
> XDC.
> ACTIONS: Martin to complete application and add admins.
> ACTIONS: Martin to send out reminder mail
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: khronos
> SPI replied, but no answer yet.
> ACTIONS: Daniel to keep pinging SPI
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: elections
> Need to wait 30 days after membership expiration, next step pushed back to 19th
> Feb. Board wiki for election process notes still down. Alex copied things over
> to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/
> ACTIONS: Alex&Peter are on it.
> ACTIONS: Alex will send out a renewal reminder on the usual lists.
> ACTIONS: Robclark to resurrect the board wiki
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: updated membership agreement
> Robclark edited it to taste (we haven't updated it since over 10 years), one
> tiny edit still discussed on irc.
> ACTIONS: Every board member: Please read final version and vote on board@
> ACTIONS: Robclark to send out final pdf/sha1 for review
> STATUS: Pending
> 
> ITEM: financial records
> Bryce waiting for review on his branch at ssh://gabe.freedesktop.org/srv/bod.x.org/archives.git encrypt-financials
> ACTIONS: Board members to send gpg keys to bryce for encryption.
> STATUS: Pending
> """]]
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch

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