[Members] Re: disconnect from board to active developers

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/18/06, Egbert Eich <eich at suse.de> wrote:
>
> * CC-ing to members at xorg also *
>
> Dave Airlie writes:
>  > I'd like to ask the potential board members some questions...
>  >
>  > 1) X.org has limited funds gotten from company sponsorships, I'd like
>  > to know what plans for those funds the nominees would have?
>
> Well, X.Org's funds are not so limited after all. As a candidate
> I won't comment on the ammount of money we currently have in the
> bank but the order of magnitude should be well known.
>
> Early this year I drafted a budget which was later approved by
> the Board. It has been published to the developers mailing list
> (not to the members list as that one was unavailable at the time)
> so it is public knowledge.
>
> In this budget we set aside funds for a number of activeties.
> Among those are:
>
> - Conference organization.
> - HotHouses (opportunity for developers to meet)
> - Sponsorship to attend conferences to talk about the state
>   and progress in development of the X Window System.
> - Sponsorship for travel to attend conferences and HotHouses.
>

I haven't seen the budget numbers so I don't know how realistic this
would be, but would Xorg ever consider directly funding the
development of new drivers or significant infrastructual updates?  For
example xrandr++ or a real FB manager may have happened years ago if
it had been funded.  I don't want to take away from individual
contributors, but most of us only work on X in our spare time so it
often takes a big ouside contribution or a long period to time for
major needed changes to happen.

Alex