On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:44, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: > Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... > but i did not at all feel comfortable doing so. > > While we did start to get some insights in the Boards doings of the past > year, these insights are very limited indeed. > > There are no transcripts nor minutes of meetings. Irc meetings are > supposed to be free and open now, but the first one to become free was > the one from this tuesday. > > There is little to no information about the X.org Foundation Boards > financial handlings. Several years ago, several companies (at least one, > Sun) deposited a lot of money into the foundation. It seems that the > foundation had 222k usd at the start of 2007; and we have 125k usd > today. We are not getting many details on how these funds were used, and > we only get some very general statements about how these funds were used > in the last year. And it seems that nobody on the actual board of > directors has anything but some hazy ideas of what is going on. >
FWIW a fair chunk of that money went into XDS 2007. If you recall we had a nice conference place and X.Org paid for hosting and trip for a big number of people (which is also why the event grew so big and was so successful, we never had such a big venue before and since then). Stephane _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
