XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:38 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
Parent article: XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

The question of what to do with Wayland seems like a question of how freedesktop.org and the X.org Foundation should interact. Those two organizations seem so closely related that I wonder if it even makes sense for them to remain separate, other than that they both independently have a great deal of name recognition.

XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

Posted Sep 28, 2012 8:58 UTC (Fri) by paulproteus (guest, #69280) [Link] (3 responses)

As far as I can tell, freedesktop.org is not an organization, just a domain name.

Given that, it's up to the individuals who are doing Weyland and the individuals who maintain the X organization how to work together.

XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

Posted Sep 28, 2012 8:58 UTC (Fri) by paulproteus (guest, #69280) [Link]

s/Weyland/Wayland/

(It's past my bedtime. Pardon the typo.)

XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

Posted Sep 28, 2012 18:54 UTC (Fri) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

For some reason I had thought a separate legal entity existed for fd.o, but perhaps not.

XDC2012: Status report from the X.Org Board

Posted Oct 15, 2012 5:53 UTC (Mon) by acoopersmith (subscriber, #72107) [Link]

Freedesktop.org decided to avoid the multi-year paperwork requirements for forming their own non-profit organization and instead affiliated with Software in the Public Interest (SPI).

X.Org works closely with freedesktop.org, as they provide hosting to X.Org and the related free graphics stack projects (Mesa, Wayland, DRI, etc.). The X.Org Foundation has been sponsoring work all along that stack, including projects for Mesa, Wayland, and DRI as well as the core/traditional X Window System, and the X.Org conferences include talks from all those projects as well.