Re: Gettys notes posted to wiki

2010-03-11 Thread Barton C Massey
that will need someone skilled to give it real ongoing attention. This seems reasonable to me. If you are willing and able to be this person, I'm happy to get you a text version. :-) Bart In message 4b98acea.9070...@bfs.de you wrote: Barton C Massey schrieb: Jim Gettys has kindly allowed me

Gettys notes posted to wiki

2010-03-10 Thread Barton C Massey
Jim Gettys has kindly allowed me to post to the X.Org wiki a draft document he wrote a while back on the status of various X.Org technologies. Please see http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Obsolescence Enjoy. Bart Massey b...@cs.pdx.edu

Re: The State of The X.Org Foundation 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 20100225105531.ga26...@suse.de you wrote: On Feb 20, 10 15:01:50 -0800, Barton C Massey wrote: The 2009 Board election was once again delayed, and completed in mid-February 2010. This is unfortunate, and further work needs to be done to ensure that the 2010

Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-22 Thread Barton C Massey
I am hoping for X.Org to once again participate in Google's Summer of Code program in 2010. It has been very successful for us in the past. The mentoring organization application period starts in a week or two. In previous years, I've tried to share the responsibility for being Org Admin for

The State of The X.Org Foundation 2010

2010-02-20 Thread Barton C Massey
Attached please find my report on The State of the X.Org Foundation, as required by the Bylaws of the Foundation. Many thanks to all who have participated in the development of X.Org. Bart Massey Secretary, X.Org Foundation Board b...@cs.pdx.edu The State of The X.Org Foundation

2010 X.Org Foundation Board election results

2010-02-20 Thread Barton C Massey
The 2010 X.Org Foundation Board elections are now complete. 54 members cast votes from an active membership of 144. The final results in Borda Count points [1] were: Alex Deucher141 Keith Packard 120 Matthieu Herrb 118 Matthias Hopf 102 Eric

X.Org Endless Vacation of Code

2010-02-20 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 4b807266.8020...@dbservice.com you wrote: On 2/21/10 12:01 AM, Barton C Massey wrote: The X.Org Endless Vacation of Code was established in 2009 to provide opportunities similar to Summer of Code to selected students on an ad hoc calendar. Only a couple of students have

Re: X.Org Foundation Board Annual Elections

2010-02-17 Thread Barton C Massey
Doh. Those buttons now appear to be named Update Your Info and Update, respectively. I hadn't realized they had been renamed; my apologies for the confusion. Bart In message c1299894-b4f1-4286-9ae2-e97266b3f...@freedesktop.org you wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 20:07, Barton C Massey

Re: X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

2010-02-10 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 20100210173132.gb3...@skynet.be you wrote: This is what the bylaws state: The Board shall keep minutes of its meetings in which shall be recorded all action taken by it, and at least a summary thereof shall be submitted to the Members at least annually. [1] I have submitted an

Re: X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

2010-02-10 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 4b732120.50...@sun.com you wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Bear in mind though that the channel is open and meetings are held at a regular time, so everyone has as much opportunity to find out what goes on during the meetings as me. :) I don't think anyone outside of the Board

X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

2010-02-04 Thread Barton C Massey
Voting for the 2010 Election of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors opens Friday 5 Feb 2010 at 0100 UTC, and closes Thursday 18 Feb 2010 at 2300 UTC. All current Members of the X.Org Foundation are eligible to vote in this election. Members may vote by logging in to the web app at

Revised X.Org election schedule

2009-12-14 Thread Barton C Massey
The X.Org Foundation Board of Directors elections have not proceeded according to the previously-announced calendar. We also received word recently that Daniel Stone is voluntarily stepping down from the Board due to lack of time, although he will continue to work with the Board on infrastructure

Re: horrible spam

2009-11-29 Thread Barton C Massey
Not your fault. Thanks much for taking care of it. Do we need to start doing more to control postings to this list? It has worked pretty well up to now, but apparently these days humans are getting paid to sign up for things so they can spam them. Uggh. Options I can think of offhand include

Re: Nomination period for X.Org Foundation Board Election extended

2009-10-29 Thread Barton C Massey
In message c24f9e5c-d2c1-4b18-9495-23b8e1457...@msys.ch you wrote: Am 28.10.2009 um 23:40 schrieb Barton C Massey: ...please don't hesitate to send a nomination (name and email address) to elections at foundation.x.org . I cliked the foundation.x.org link, but I got only a website saying

Nomination period for X.Org Foundation Board Election extended

2009-10-28 Thread Barton C Massey
We currently don't have quite as many nominees as we would like for the X.Org Foundation Board, so we have voted to extend the nomination deadline by one week in the hopes that qualified folks who have so far declined will consider standing for election. If you are actively involved in X

Membership renewal

2009-10-14 Thread Barton C Massey
In the email message I sent yesterday there was a section about X.Org Foundation membership renewal. As several of you pointed out, the instructions given there don't currently work. :-) It's not clear whether we will require you to renew your membership this year, and if so not clear how, so

X.Org Foundation Board Annual Elections

2009-10-13 Thread Barton C Massey
The next annual election of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors will be in November---nominations start right away. Here is the planned schedule for the election: Wed 2009-10-14 04:00 UTC - Nomination period begins Wed 2009-10-28 23:59 UTC - Nomination period ends Fri 2009-10-30

XDC 2009 final call for participation

2009-09-09 Thread Barton C Massey
Monday 28 September through Wednesday 30 September 2009 we will be holding the 2009 X.Org Developer's Conference in Portland Oregon. http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009 We'd really like to see you there. The talks should be great as usual, and it's a really nice opportunity to chat with key

Re: R6xx/R7xx 3D programming guide

2009-05-08 Thread Barton C Massey
Most excellent news! Thanks hugely to all of you at AMD who have contributed to this release. Bart In message a728f9f90905071636j7ba6bc4cj958c4c1727c84...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: AMD is pleased to announce the release of a 3D programming guide for Radeon 6xx/7xx chips. The

Call for Mentors and Students, Google/X.Org Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-19 Thread Barton C Massey
X.Org has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code program. Thanks much to all those who helped this happen on short notice by getting our materials in shape. As usual, we'll need a pool of folks willing to help select applications and mentor the accepted

Re: Does xcb really need python?

2009-03-16 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 20090316055209.ga4...@comet you wrote: On 07:48 Sun 15 Mar , David Wuertele wrote: I tried compiling libX11-1.2 but it asked for libxcb-1.1.92 or newer. I tried compiling libxcb-1.1.92 but it asked for python-2.5 or newer. Because of the crazy package dependencies in my

Google / X.Org Summer of Code 2009: Ideas Wanted

2009-03-13 Thread Barton C Massey
Greetings! Tonight I'm submitting X.Org's application to become a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2009. As you may know, X.Org was previously a mentoring organization in 2006, 2007 and 2008. For more information on Summer of Code, see http://code.google.com/soc . What we need

Re: Google / X.Org Summer of Code 2009: Ideas Wanted

2009-03-13 Thread Barton C Massey
Thanks hugely, as always. Bart ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: [PATCH] Initialize event_notify after allocating the memory for it.

2009-01-31 Thread Barton C Massey
Thanks hugely for this catch, Brian! Looks like one of those hard-to-catch things where most of the time it would come back 0, which on most machines is a proper initialization. Pushed. Bart Massey b...@cs.pdx.edu In message 1233427071-19581-2-git-send-email-br...@xyzw.org you wrote:

Re: LibX11/xcb fails to initialize something

2009-01-31 Thread Barton C Massey
In message 4984a2e2.8060...@xyzw.org you wrote: I'm going to be avoiding 'git format-patch' for a while now... Or at least 'git send-email'. We really prefer Git-formatted patches, so thanks for doing that. But I, like you, like to compose my own email. Bart