Summary of the 29 April 2015 meeting of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors Full IRC meeting logs are posted at BoardOfDirectors/IrcLogs/2015/04-29.

Attendees

Present:

  • Alex Deucher, Peter Hutterer, Matt Dew, Egbert Eich, Keith Packard, Rob Clark

Absent:

  • Martin Peres, Daniel Vetter

Summary

GSoC has 6 accepted projects - congratulations to the students.

SPI vote is to be re-run in the near future.

Items discussed

ITEM: expo.x.org
Trying to figure out who has physical access to the machine and a migration
strategy of where to move it to.
ACTIONS: Egbert E to investigate migration options
STATUS: Pending

ITEM: GSoC
We have 6 accepted projects:
1. Convert the BOCHS and CIRRUS drivers to atomic mode-setting 
2. Atomic counters support for llvmpipe including computer shader interactions
3. Range analysis pass, and porting optimization passes to Mesa's NIR 
4. Apitrace: Add support for performance counters in the profiling view
5. Freedreno support on Android with DRM/KMS based Hardware Composer
6. OpenCL image support for the r600 gallium driver

Congratulations to the students and mentors!
ACTION: None
STATUS: Complete

ITEM: SPI vote
We're planning to re-vote on the SPI changes, based on the low participation
in the last election but the high approval of the changes.
A couple of (expected to be minor) changes to the bylaws are proposed, they
need to be voted on by the board.
ACTION: Martin P to send proposed changes to the board list
STATUS: Pending