On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Harry Wentland wrote: > The leadership of freedesktop.org (fd.o) has recently expressed interest > in having an elected governing body. Given the tight connection between > fd.o and X.Org and the fact that X.Org has such a governing body it > seemed obvious to consider extending X.Org's mandate to fd.o. > > Quite a bit of background on fd.o leading up to this has been covered by > Daniel Stone at XDC 2018 and was covered really well by Jake Edge of LWN [1]. > > One question that is briefly addressed in the LWN article and was > thoroughly discussed by members of the X.Org boards, Daniel Stone, and > others in hallway discussions is the question of whether to extend the > X.Org membership to projects hosted on fd.o but outside the purpose of > the X.Org foundation as enacted in its bylaws. > > Most people I talked to would prefer not to dilute X.Org's mission and > extend membership only to contributors of projects that follow X.Org's > purpose as enacted in its bylaws. Other projects can continue to be > hosted on fd.o but won't receive X.Org membership for the mere reason of > being hosted on fd.o. > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/767258/ > > v2: > - Subject line that better describes the intention > - Briefly describe reasons behind this change > - Drop expanding membership eligibility > --- > > We're looking for feedback and comments on this patch. If it's not > widely controversial the final version of the patch will be put to a > vote at the 2019 X.Org elections. > > The patch applies to the X.Org bylaws git repo, which can be found at > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorgfoundation/bylaws > > Happy commenting. > > Harry > > bylaws.tex | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/bylaws.tex b/bylaws.tex > index 4ab35a4f7745..44ff4745963b 100644 > --- a/bylaws.tex > +++ b/bylaws.tex > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a By-law of the X.Org Foundation > > The purpose of the X.Org Foundation shall be to: > \begin{enumerate}[(i)\hspace{.2cm}] > - \item Research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, > + \item \label{1} Research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, > promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack. This > includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, > Wayland and the X Window System, > @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ The purpose of the X.Org Foundation shall be to: > > \item Support and educate the general community of users of this > graphics stack. > + > + \item Support free and open source projects through the freedesktop.org > + infrastructure. For projects outside the scope of item (\ref{1}) support > + extends to project hosting only. > + Yes to the idea but given that the remaining 11 pages cover all the legalese for xorg I think we need to add at least a section of what "project hosting" means. Even if it's just a "includes but is not limited to blah". And some addition to 4.1 Powers is needed to spell out what the BoD can do in regards to fdo. Cheers, Peter > \end{enumerate} > > \article{INTERPRETATION} > -- > 2.19.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
