X.Org Foundation Status Update

Peter Hutterer

8 Oct 2014

X.Org Board of Directors

X.Org Membership

Join up, get the benefits

http://members.x.org/

Birthdays

The X Window System has had the 30th birthday on 19 June

The X.Org Foundation has had the 10th birthday on 22 January

These modern times

Google Summer of Code

EVoC

The Endless Vacation of Code is X.Org's GSoC equivalent, but unrestricted by timeframes.

EVoC

XDC Travel sponsorship

The X.Org Board approved 7 travel sponsorships for

  • Successful GSoC/EVoC students get travel sponsorship on request
    • Emil, Stephen, Roy
  • Alex Deucher, David Herrmann, Jamey Sharp

Outreach Program for Women

OPW is a GSoC-like program for anyone who identifies as female.

http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/

X.Org signed up for one paid participant in Round 9 (southern hemisphere's summer).

SPI

Mostly the same state as last year:

XDC

Many thanks to Martin for organising XDC!