Summary of the 08 October 2020 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at IrcLogs

Attendees

Present: Daniel Vetter, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez, Lyude Paul, Manasi Navare, Keith Packard, Harry Wentland,

Guests: Trevor Woerner

Absent: Mark Filion (but provided update on cloud hosting afterwards), Eric Anholt,

Summary

Agenda: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status, requesting ledger data, XDC2020 sponsor invoicing, XDC2019 sponsor invoicing, XDC2020, XDC2021, Self hosting for Indico website, GSoC, Cloud hosting for Freedesktop.org

Items discussed

ITEM: X.org/freedesktop.org domain status
Lyude ended up missing the monthly SPI meeting last month, so no update
ACTIONS: Lyude to attend meeting at October 12th
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Requesting ledger data
Lyude ended up missing the monthly SPI meeting last month, so no update
ACTIONS: Lyude to attend meeting at October 12th
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020 sponsor invoicing
Manasi is in the process of being handed off treasurer responsibilities. Will
be sending invoice to ARM soon, also received some receipts from Radek that
need to be subtracted from Intel's invoice
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2019 sponsor invoicing
Still no updates from Intel
ACTIONS: Manasi to keep poking Intel about paying
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2020
Virtual XDC went flawlessly, everyone seemed happy with it. Organizers are
working on uploading a separate video of each talk. We also documented
requirements for virtual conferences in our RFP. Feedback is still open, don't
forget to submit yours!
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: XDC2021
RFP is still open and we're looking for organizers, feel free to submit your
proposals!
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: Self hosting for indico website
Not much to say here, board agrees to poke sysadmins to see if they'd have the
time for this.
ACTIONS: Samuel will discuss this with fd.o admins directly
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: GSoC
Trevor will be attending the virutal GSoC mentor summit on October 15th for the
first time. Mark Filion pointed out a per-org initiative to increase
contributors happening this month, Trevor is unsure whether or not they'll have
the time to participate.
ACTIONS:
STATUS: Done

ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org
Mark has started looking at how to refresh X.org to have a more modern look,
and be able to give visibility to our current (and future) infra sponsors.
ACTIONS: Mark to keep up the good work!
STATUS: Pending