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...
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Originally posted by libv View PostThat 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).
Dave.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostThat said, the board's activities seem to be pretty vendor-neutral so vendor affiliation doesn't seem like a big issue.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostPre-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.
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Originally posted by numasan View PostWho sits on the board from AMD/ATI?
That said, the board's activities seem to be pretty vendor-neutral so vendor affiliation doesn't seem like a big issue.
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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
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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 ?
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It's Xorg not IntelOrg. As much as Intel contributes to open source they should still not be allowed any dominant positions within it.
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