X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2017-03-02

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

Absent:

Peter Hutterer,

## Summary

Agenda: elections, GSoC, paperwork, XDC, yearly reports

Elections: Nomination phase started, but only 1 nomination thus far :(

Gsoc: X.org again a mentoring org!

XDC date is fixed 20th-22nd Sept! https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: Elections
Nomations started, but only 1 thus far. Board also approves the revised
membership agreement, which also will be voted on in the next elections.
New membership agreement: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/foundation/bylaws/log/?h=memberagreement-updates
ACTIONS: Alex will send out a reminder.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Gsoc
X.org again accepted!
ACTIONS: Martin to send out mail to ask for mentors&project ideas.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Yearly reports and paperwork
Old X.org foundation and bank account in final steps of shutting down, just need
to verify it's all done. Treasurer report draft written, with data from SPI.
ACTIONS: Bryce to send the report to board@ for review.
ACTIONS: GPG keys need to get to Bryce for the financial records. Bryce will
send a howto. Need to sign keys at the next XDC.
ACTIONS: Daniel to upload previous secretary reports to the public wiki.
STATUS: Pending
"""]]

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