Issues Within The X.Org Foundation?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Issues Within The X.Org Foundation?

For the past two weeks elections have been going on by X.Org members to elect five people to serve as board of directors for the X.Org Foundation, the formal 501(c)(3) organization that backs the development of the X.Org project. The elections for the board of directors takes place annually replacing four of the eight members each time around, but this year the elections have been particularly interesting...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzk5NA

[sturmflut]

A bunch of software engineers who have problems with attending meetings, documentation and finance.

Sounds normal.

Probably the problem would vanish within days if Intel or one of the other companies just sponsored an accountant. I wonder why that's not already happening, participation in Open Source Projects is not limited to engineers.

[daniels]

FWIW:
The Foundation is not a 501(c)(3) yet. It's still a Delaware LLC, in the process of transitioning to a 501(c)(3) with help from the SFLC, but this is slow going.

Also, I said that I personally found it difficult to attend the meetings, as I'm the only one in Asia/Oceania. When it comes to scheduling meetings, you can really pick two out of America, Europe and Asia, so Australia lost out. This was fair enough, and one of the reasons I decided to leave. It doesn't impact anyone else on the board, past, present or in the current crop of candidates.

[Hephasteus]

It's Xorg not IntelOrg. As much as Intel contributes to open source they should still not be allowed any dominant positions within it.

[bridgman]

AFAIK there's already a rule for that, limiting the board to a maximum of two directors from any single company. Two out of 8 seems OK, doesn't it ?

[numasan]

Who sits on the board from AMD/ATI?

[deanjo]

Sounds like they need a couple of non-company affiliated board members to

a) be the voice of the end user
b) be a watchdog on the funds

[bridgman]

Who sits on the board from AMD/ATI?

Pre-election, nobody from ATI/AMD. Alex (agd5f) was one of the candidates for this election, so after the votes are counted he might be on the board.

That said, the board's activities seem to be pretty vendor-neutral so vendor affiliation doesn't seem like a big issue.

[libv]

Pre-election, nobody from ATI/AMD. Alex (agd5f) was one of the candidates for this election, so after the votes are counted he might be on the board.

That said, the board's activities seem to be pretty vendor-neutral so vendor affiliation doesn't seem like a big issue.

They are supposed to be, but how could we know that? We have almost no information on what happens.

[libv]

Who sits on the board from AMD/ATI?

That would be an ATI candidate, in this case, as the other case would require one of the AMD GPGPU people to be involved (the same people who got you the evergreen ISA docs).