xorg-report-2015

NOTE: This is the markdown for the slides used at the XDC 2015 presentation See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWp9bkk6LAU for the video

% X.Org Foundation Status Update % Peter Hutterer % 17 Sep 2015

XDC 2015

Thanks to Tom for organising XDC!

X.Org Board of Directors

• Board of Directors

  • Rob Clark (Red Hat)
  • Alex Deucher (AMD)
  • Egbert Eich (SuSE)
  • Keith Packard (HP)
  • Martin Peres (Intel)
  • Matt Dew (Micron)
  • Peter Hutterer (Red Hat)
  • Daniel Vetter (Intel), Secretary

• Treasurer:

  • Stuart Kreitman (Oracle)

X.Org Board of Directors

Elected for 2 years at a time

• Election usually in the Feb-April timeframe
• Four board members up for election every year
• You too can be member of the board

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The BoD decides distribution of funds

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The BoD does not control the technical direction of X, Wayland, Mesa, ...

X.Org Foundation PR accounts

• G+: X.Org Foundation
• Twitter: @XOrgFoundation
• YouTube: X.Org Foundation

X.Org Membership

Join up, get the benefits

• you need to re-join every year

http://members.x.org/

Google Summer of Code

• 6 students accepted, 5 completed the project successfully
  • "Enabling Freedreno on Android", Varad Gautam (Rob Clark)
  • "Range analysis pass, and porting optimization passes to Mesa's NIR", Thomas Helland (Matt Turner)
  • "Apitrace: Add support for performance counters in the profiling view.", Alex Tru (Martin Peres)
  • "Convert the BOCHS and CIRRUS drivers to atomic mode-setting", Zhao Junwang (Daniel Vetter)
  • "OpenCL image support for the r600 gallium driver", Zoltan Gilian (Tom Stellard)
• 1 student pulled out

EVoC

The Endless Vacation of Code is X.Org's GSoC equivalent, but unrestricted by timeframes.

1 project, ongoing

• "Porting Glean Tests to Piglit", Juliet Fru (Brian Paul)

EVoC Changes

We need to handle EVoC better

• tightened the rules after last year, but we don't scale well (or at all...)
• struggling to get students up to speed from zero
• cross-project attempts are difficult

Future projects only from known contributors

Outreachy (Outreach Program for Women)

Outreachy is a GSoC-like program for anyone who identifies as female.

http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/

X.Org had one participant in Round 9 (Dec 2014 - March 2015)

• "Server-side XCB", Asal Mirzaeva (Christian Linhart)

XDC Travel sponsorship

The X.Org Board approved travel sponsorships for

• Jake Edge (LWN)

• Successful GSoC/EVoC students get travel sponsorship on request

  • Marek, Samuel, Varad

SPI merger

X.Org is an LLC with 501(c)3 tax status in the US

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• All we do is XDC, GSoC, EVoC and Outreachy
• We are not good at administrative tasks

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Decided to merge with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)

• http://spi-inc.org

Benefits: offload administrative

SPI merger

By-law changes need to get approved by 2/3 of the membership.

April vote:

• 35 yay, 2 nay, 4 abstain
• less than 2/3 of the membership → not passed

SPI merger

Annual BoD election is planned for February

• You too can run for the board election

By-law vote will be at the same election

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We need 2/3 vote! Please vote!

X.Org Foundation Summary

• Google Summer of Code
• Endless Vacation of Code
• Outreachy/OPW
• SPI Merger