X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2019-09-12

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:02 AM Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ITEM: coc training
> > Lyude Paul, Daniel Stone and Manasi Navare attended the CoC training session
> > on Monday Sept 9th. Went very well, and was quite beneficial.
> > ACTIONS: Send an email out about offering training to more members of X.Org
> > after XDC
> > STATUS: Pending
> >
>
> I'm interested in our plans around this area moving forward, do we
> have more info on who and what roles people will be undertaking in
> this area and future trainees?

Long story is that this is all stuff we're trying to figure out after
the fd.o merger. First step was to put some rules into place for how
the admin and coc teams are appointed:
https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation/Policies/Hosting/ We'll probably
have to refine that going forward. Board also approved all current
members of these team, plus Manasi was appointed newly to the coc
team.

For coc specifically, there's two things we want to put in place, to
reduce the risks since coc handling has proven to blow up real bad in
other open source communities.
- some external consulting or something else that can provide an
impartial/outside assessment for complicated case. Unfortunately "you
get to deal with lkml worst case" is not a proposal that receives much
enthusiasm, our first inquiries didn't really work out. More to do
here.
- training for at least all the people on the fd.o and xdc coc teams.
Since xdc coc team is redone yearly (we want at least someone local,
plus people need to actually travel to xdc and all that) I expect
we'll run them at least yearly because of that, plus of course anytime
someone new joins the fd.o coc team. Of course when the board voted on
this, the directors who'd benefit directly abstained from that vote.

Current teams for fdo https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/
and this year's xdc
https://xdc2019.x.org/event/5/page/32-code-of-conduct shows we still
have some more trainings to do due to clashes with travel for some of
the people. Since the fd.o coc enforcement very much relies on list
admins, gitlab maintainers and others to do most of the enforcement
we've also discussed offering this to the x.org communities in
general. Plan is to discuss that a bit at xdc, to see how much
interest there is and then collect a list of names over members@ or
so. As long as it's just 10-20 people total we have the budget for
this I think (but the board didn't vote for this yet). Current
trainings we've done are with Sage Sharp, because they come with
strong recommendations from outside people we've discussed coc issues
in the past, plus they offer regular trainings now where we can book
individual seats. We tried to get a group training for x.org, but
we're too small and coordination to get everyone available on the same
date proved impossible.

Lot of this is still very much under discussion, with volunteers
everything tends to take quite a while.

> > ITEM: vesa
> > Lyude Paul talked with Bill Lempesis from VESA about a non-profit membership
> > for X.Org again, will get discussed during the VESA board meeting today.
> > Awaiting more info.
> > ACTIONS:
> > STATUS: Pending
> Part of me wants to ask what happened the first time around, part of
> me really doesn't want to know.

tbh no idea, I didn't even know we were a member of vesa beforehand
... Lyude is running this, she might know more.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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