X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2020-07-16

[Lyude Paul]

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,
Manasi Navare,
Mark Filion,
Keith Packard,
Harry Wentland,

Guests:
Trevor Woerner
Daniel Stone,

Absent:
Eric Anholt,

## Summary

Agenda: X.org/Freedesktop.org domain status, XDC2020 sponsors, GSoC/EVoC,
XDC2020, Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2021

## Items discussed

[[!format txt """
ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
No updates from SPI yet
ACTIONS: Lyude will try filing another ticket with SPI
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020 sponsors
Daniel Vetter was able to send out some more sponsor emails, and some sponsors
who previously said no said yes. We also managed to get some invoices paid ahead
of time.
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending Done

ITEM: GSoC/EVoC
Trevor sent out emails to recent GSoC students looking to see if they'd submit
talks for XDC2020. We've gotten one proposal so far.
As well, Trevor crunched some numbers and got some nice stats:
42 successful GSoC students
~43% (depends on parameters) contribute at least once after GSoC is over
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020
At the moment we have 6 full-slot talks, 8 half-slot, 2 lightning talks, 0 demos
and 0 workshops. CfP deadline is this Sunday.
ACTIONS: Board motions to extend CfP until two weeks before the conference, or
until we fill all the slots (whichever happens first)
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org
No updates
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020 sponsor invoicing
Eric was absent, so no updates
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2021
Ran out of time to have a full discussion, so voting was pushed off until next
meeting.
ACTIONS: Board will vote on location at next meeting
STATUS: Pending
"""]]