X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2019-07-18

[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 [4] 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=US/Pacific

== 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:
Daniel Vetter,
Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez,
Lyude Paul,
Eric Anholt,
Bryce Harrington,

Guests:
Trevor Woerner

Absent:

Manasi Navare,
Keith Packard,
Harry Wentland,

## Summary

Agenda: gsoc/evoc, travel request, fd.o CC nomination, xdc cfp/sponsors,
extended travel policy, xdc20, fd.o admins

GSoC: 2 students on track with their internship!

Board approves Manasi Navare as new member of the fd.o CoC team

XDC 19 CFP accept/reject mails should go out next week as planned.

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: GSoc
Unfortunately one student failed first evaluation on 24th June. Other 2 students
on track. Waypipe project making quite some waves on phoronix and reddit! 22nd
July next evaluation.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: travel requests
5 more requests. In total 12 travel requests for xdc19, totalling 16k USD. Board
approves this final batch of requests.
ACTIONS: Eric handle all the reimbursement after XDC.
STATUS: Done

ITEM: fd.o CoC nominates Manasi Navare
Board approves.
STATUS: Done

ITEM: XDC cfp/sponsors
Paper committee going through all proposal, great submissions, accept/reject
mails should go as planned next week.
3 more sponsors for XDC19 since last meeting 4 weeks ago.
https://xdc2019.x.org/event/5/page/37-sponsors starting to look good.
ACTIONS: Samuel keeps on top of everything.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: xdc20
2 proposals, unfortunately one might be withdrawn. Aside from this, both
proposals look good and all questions from board are answered. Also want more
solid quorum for this decisions.
ACTIONS: Samuel to prep a mail with both proposals summarized for next meeting.
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: fd.o admins
Rough consensus to improve fd.o admin situation with more paid (part-) time.
"Just" need to figure out how, will take time.
STATUS: Pending
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-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch