
Those not in attendance at XDC2014 in France can find a copy of Peter's slides via this HTML copy. Some of my takeaways include:
- The board encourages everyone relevant to re-join every year at members.x.org.
- The X Window System turned 30 years old this summer.
- Four of 7 GSoC projects were successful with the others failing due to various reasons.
- X.Org's EVoC had one of two projects succeed this past year.
- The foundation feels a need to better handle EVoC. They feel it's currently too generic, there is a need for stricter deadlines, stricter rules, and better communication.
- The X.Org board sponsored travel for LWN's Jake Edge to cover the conference. (Not that I mind the foundation funding some "competing" web-site to cover the conference, as we target very different demographics, but based upon my professional accounting experience I'm not sure it's legal for a 501(c)3 to do so in the US for sponsoring media, especially when any coverage is behind a pay wall.) At the end of the day I also personally just believe in capitalism and not being subsidized by other organizations to provide coverage, hence why I went this year without covering XDC in person and not trying to pursue any subsidization.
- X.Org is still pushing their OPW women outreach program for getting more females involved with X.Org-related developments.
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