X.org Board of Directors Meeting summary of Wednesday 2009-xx-xx. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Official log: https://members.x.org/minutes/xorg-board-2009-xx-xx.txt Location is #xf-bod@irc.oftc.net, timeframe of meeting unknown. Attending board members: Adam Jackson, Alan Coopersmith, Eric Anholt, Bart Massey, Carl Worth, Daniel Stone, Donnie Berkholz, Matthieu Herrb. Absent board members: None. Bart starts by talking about the upcoming elections. Alan suggest to start the nomination period immediately, Bart asks the board to review his draft email after the meeting. Daniel wonders about the election system, but Eric suggests to only run a test election, and gives Daniel some instructions on how to do so. Then Bart brings up that Leon Shiman (former board member) forwarded Karen Sandler (SFLC Lawyer) a subpoena from Juniper Communications. Since Karen hasn't received this yet, it is unclear what action to take. Adam first misinterpretes this statement and refers to Leon as "what a charmer", but Bart corrects Adam, that Juniper just sent Leon something that should've been sent to the board. Matthieu finds out that Leon is still the contact listed in the whois database for the X.org domain, and everyone agrees that the domain issue should get fixed. Daniel then states "it almost expired, and netsol just said that they'd renew it for 10 years and say no more, but it didn't really solve the underlying problem", and Bart added "No, just paid for for 10 years or so." Bart then moves to hosting the next XDC. He states that Tiago Vignatti proposed to organise the next X conference in Brazil. Donnie requests that it will "be colocated with one of the big confs down there", particularly FISL or BOSSA. Bart adds "we're going to have to provide substantial travel funds for folks who want to go to Brazil." Eric then asks Bart "so would we do fosdem stuff as our euro meeting?", to which Bart replies "To the extent we'd have a euro meeting, yes." Daniel asks "xds won't be in europe then, and the european plan is to continue just bumming off fosdem for a day?", "i'd suggest enlarging it then, since wasn't fosdem just the one day?", "and also formalising its organisation somewhat so we actually get a wide range of x developers, not just the people who turn up to fosdem" Bart then tries to get people to vote on this; "Motion to hold XDS 2010 in Brazil, and a smaller to-be-named event associated with FOSDEM. Opposed?" Daniel abstains, and states "i'd certainly not like to enshrine real conference always in america vs. tiny miniconf always in europe.", to which Bart answers "I think the suggestion is that we're doing US vs non-US.", "XDS is the full event and is in Europe...", "Our original vote was to alternate between US and Europe" "In this case, Brazil is being treated as part of Europe :-)" Matthieu then brings up his own ideas: "I'm proposing to organize the next full conference in Toulouse", Daniel supports this, and adds "defer brazil to next year?". Bart is not comfortable with this: "I'm not sure it makes any more sense to short the US event than the European one, though.", "Maybe we should alternate US, Europe, Rest Of The World as a policy?", "We're just trying to avoid making most people travel intercontinental three years in a row". Daniel then brings up the facts: "xdc april 2008 was in mountain view, xdc september 2009 was in portland". Eric asks Matthieu when he would want to hold the event in Toulouse (at the university where he works), Matthieu suggests september as this is short before the start of the academic year in Europe. Bart then suggests to "hold two full conferences next year", "We can afford it, and it sounds like fun". Daniel then adds "given the current financial climate though, we'd need a fairly hefty travel budget, and to make sure that no-one's ashamed of dipping into it". Bart then states "we've still got quite a bit of cash", and " we can also maybe get some extra sponsorship for Brazil", Eric suggests asking intel. The discussion then focusses on when to time the Brazil event and when to time Toulouse. Daniel labels BOSSA as mostly a Nokia event, and that FISL is the more credible free software conference. Alan adds that he knew about FISL, but never heard of BOSSA before. Bart suggests Brazil in june (FISL), and Toulouse in december, but while Daniel supports this idea he adds "but toulouse in december might not be stupidly warm". Matthieu states that he "should be able to find a room in december." Bart then suggests "do Brazil in 2010 and Toulouse in 2011, both in June", Eric adds that he likes the two different years, and both locations, and that fosdem will be there in between. Matthieu is also ok with this, and Bart states that he will contact Tiago on this. Eric asks whether he and Carl could ask for X.org travel funding for "the video miniconf" in november, in return "intel would also be donating to support x.org's efforts related to the conf", and it seems that the board is ok with that. One motion was presented at this meeting, no real voting took place though.