The X.Org Foundation is holding elections for
- The Board of Directors
The current full board is: Erik Faye-Lund, Mark Filion, Neal Gompa, Arkadiusz Hiler, Christopher Michael, Lyude Paul, Simon Ser and Sima Vetter.
Election Schedule
- Nomination period Start: Wed April 2nd
- Nomination period End: Wed April 16th
- Publication of Candidates & start of Candidate QA: Wed April 23rd
- Deadline of X.Org membership application or renewal: Tue April 28th
- Election Planned Start: Wed April 30th
- Election Planned End: Wed May 14th
PLEASE NOTE: The memberships of all X.Org Members have been expired, to participate in this election you MUST renew your membership by the deadline mentioned above! Please go to the Members page for your membership application or renewal.
Board Election
The terms of the following Board Members will end this year:
Current directors whose term expires in 2025 are Lyude Paul, Arkadiusz Hiler and Christopher Michael.
- Lyude Paul
- Arkadiusz Hiler
- Christopher Michael
Following the resignation of Simona Vetter in Q3 2024, there are 4 seats on the X.Org Board of Directors up for election.
The Elections overview page describes the voting methods and process.
The election process starts with a 2 week nomination period. If you would like to nominate yourself please send email to the election committee elections@x.org, giving your
- name
- current professional affiliation
- a statement of contribution to X.Org or related technologies
- a personal statement.
To vote or to be elected to the Board you needed to be a Member of the X.Org Foundation. To be a Member of the X.Org Foundation you need to apply or renew your membership until the end of the nomination period.
Nominees (in alphabetical order)
Andres Gomez
Current Affiliation: Igalia
Personal Statement:
I have been an active Open Source contributor since 2003, participating in projects like GNOME, and FreeDesktop, among others. I started to be actively involved with OSS graphic drivers in 2014, where I continue devoting much of my time, although from a coordination perspective for our team of developers at Igalia.
By joining X.Org board I hope to give a bit more back to the community, helping to get things done. Among other things, I've contributed to create the graphic design for the public image of some past OSS events. I'll be happy to work in other tasks, including the organization of XDC. I could take part in the CfP committee, for example, or anything else the board could need help with.
Arkadiusz Hiler
Current Affiliation: CodeWeavers
Personal Statement:
Gaming on Linux is one of the main driving forces for the development of a lot of the technologies under the X.Org umbrella. I would like to represent the gaming part of the user space.
During my 2 years on the board I've helped with finances and planning for the freedesktop.org migration, assuring that it's sustainable.
I also have experience with running conferences and I'm more than happy to help any future XDC organizers on the ground and with streaming the events.
Megan Knight
Current Affiliation: Director of Software Communities, Arm
Personal Statement:
I am very new to the X.Org community, but eager to help out! I’ve been in open source for over a decade and have extensive experience planning large scale OS events, engaging with communities, delivering on Advocacy initiatives and being the translator between technical and business decision makers. Currently, I am working on a proposal to organize the upcoming 2026 edition of XDC and alsop plan to attend XDC 2025.
I currently serve as the Advocacy Chair for Yocto Project and in the last four years have improved developer relations, improved documentation and onboarding processes, increased their website SEO, migrated/redesigned their website to increase traffic, produce(d) 5+ events a year from start to finish, and increased revenue by attracting new members/upleveling existing members.
If elected, I look forward to diving deep into X.Org and will apply these skills so developers can focus on building great tech.
Lyude Paul
Current Affiliation: Red Hat
Personal Statement:
Hi! My name is Lyude Paul, and I'm currently employed at Red Hat as a Software Engineer. I'm also currently on the X.org Board of Directors as X.org's Secretary, and am also a member of the CoC team. I've also been a member of X.org for multiple years now and have contributed to a plethora of various projects in the X.org/freedesktop.org/linux kernel space such as: nova, nouveau, i915, amdgpu, the wayland protocol, igt-gpu-tools, libinput, and more.
I've had a pretty long tenure on the board where I've accomplished a number of cool things For instance, I restarted X.org's relationship with VESA in order to give X.org members access to various VESA specifications that they might not have access to otherwise without a prior VESA membership. I worked to help enable X.og to provide funding for professional CoC training for any X.org/freeesktop.org project that requests it, and I've assisted through the transition of parent foundations for X.org from SPI to SFC. I love working in this community, and will do my best to serve the community throughout my tenusre if re-elected to the board of directors.
Harry Wentland
Current Affiliation: AMD
Personal Statement:
I've been lucky to be paid to help improve the Linux Desktop experience on AMD HW and in that capacity align with X.Org's mission to further the state of the open-source desktop. A healthy, diverse, open-source, and general-purpose desktop provides tremendous value to many people and is a bulwark against corporate silos.
I've also been lucky to have previously served on X.Org's Board of Directors. If I am elected I am happy to support the board wherever needed, whether in supporting infrastructure, chasing sponsors, or organizing the conference.
Statement of Contribution:
I maintain AMD's DRM/KMS driver and have lately been exploring beyond that. I have also recently found myself helping to drive the color/HDR effort forward in small ways.