X.org Board of Directors Meeting summary of Saturday 2009-10-24.
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Official log: https://members.x.org/minutes/xorg-board-2009-10-24.txt

Location is #xf-bod@irc.oftc.net, timeframe of meeting unknown.

Attending board members: Adam Jackson, Alan Coopersmith, Bart Massey,
Donnie Berkholz.

Absent board members: Carl Worth, Eric Anholt, Daniel Stone, Matthieu Herrb.

Attending non-board members: Keith Packard.

This seems to be a special meeting, probably for the slip in the election
schedule.

Bart starts off the meeting by talking about the elections: "i'm weeks behind
in running the election", it "we would be best to gather statements and have
discussion now, and vote in january." "last year when we tried to run the
election too close to the holidays, we got a lot of negative feedback". "i'll
try to draft an email to the membership in a bit, and run it by the board
before i send it out.  I'll also try to finally get the nominations processed."

Bart also asks "who got tasked with getting NSI to move our domain reg out of
Leon's name?", but he receives no answer due to the main discussion point of
this meeting.

The main discussion of course was that apparently "Tycho" an X.org machine
once donated by VA Linux, was on fire earlier that day. This machine was ancient
and while it was running, it apparently wasn't doing anything.

Alan asks whether "the Sun machines <are> still gathering dust at MIT or did
they ever get plugged in?", Adam replies "they were plugged in" "but never
given an OS to run" "at some point i turned them off, but they're still in the
rack". Bart remembers that "there was some controversy about whether they
should run linux or solaris", but apparently that is no issue anymore. Donnie
suggests to install whatever the people administering know best.

Bart concludes that "keithp will coordinate begging for money for new servers,
ajax will install linux on the MIT boxes, alanc will set up tinderboxing for
at least solaris or find someone to do it."

No motions were presented, no voting took place.