Re: Another teleconference partial edited transcript

[Leon Shiman <leon@magic.shiman.com>]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 06:08:21 -0400 (EDT) Mike Harris wrote:
>
>On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>>>>>If so, I hope they please speak up and let everyone know they're
>>>>>here so that their voices can be heard and represented.  David,
>>>>
>>>>X.Org is not represented. I do not know if any members have been 
>>>>individually invited. I wasn't.
>>> 
>>> I didn't realize X.org was still involved in the development of
>>> the X Window System.
>>
>>As has been discussed here previously, X.org is slow moving, but
>>still actively working on a number of enhancements to X.  You can
>>see a selection of these at http://www.x.org/X11_technologies.html
>
>Ah.  I've seen a few things mentioned there in the past, but I
>assumed X.org unofficially folded a while back as there didn't
>seem to be any visible signs of life.  ;o)
>

Both www.X.Org and www.MediaApplicationServer.net (a major X.Org supported 
project) are reasonably up-to-date.

We'd be glad to have your input.

Leon (member of X.Org)

>
>>>  Perhaps X.org was just overlooked based on
>>> incorrect assumptions.  Hard to say with certainty though as I'm
>>> a participant rather than a confcall organizer.  I wouldn't even 
>>> know whom to contact at X.org, but perhaps someone else does.
>>
>>Steve Swales would probably be a good choice as the X.org chairman
>>and the person who posted the official X.org statement to the forum
>>mailing list a couple of weeks ago.  I suggested Keith contact him
>>back at the end of February when Keith first talked to me about his
>>concerns with the XFree86 organization.  (And of course, since his
>>office is just down the hall from mine, I've had lots of talks with
>>him about this matter.)
>
>Ok, good to hear.  I must admit I don't really know anyone
>involved with X.org at all as I've never seen anyone from X.org
>visibly in the community anywhere before, or at least not with
>X.org addresses.  ;o)  I chatted briefly with someone at LWE a
>couple of years ago whom wanted to further discuss some things
>with me at a later date and said they'd contact me, but I don't
>recall who it was and they never ended up contacting me after 
>that and I forgot about it.
>
>It's too bad X.org never really had much public visibility and
>surrounding community around it through the years as it would
>probably be good for more people currently interested in X
>development to have gotten to know more of those who have come
>before them.  ;o/
>
>Hopefully we can see closer collaboration and discussion between 
>the old and the new for the future.
>
>
>>> Alan Coopersmith and Bill Haneman were invited to the first
>>> confcall but nobody has heard back from them.
>>
>>While Bill & I both work for an X.org member company (as do Keith
>>Packard & Jim Gettys for that matter), neither of us are heavily
>>involved in X.org.  (I'm officially part of a couple of long-defunct
>>task forces, and attended the in-person meetings a couple of years
>>ago when Sun hosted them in Palo Alto, but that's it.)
>
>Are you still involved with X development?  Just curious as to 
>what projects others are working on/with.
>
>
>>I admit not responding to Keith's invitation - just after receiving
>>it the forum mailing list announcement was sent out and I assumed it
>>would be handling the discussion he was intending to have.
>
>Ah.  I just remembered seeing mention of your names somewhere and 
>there seemed to be an X.org connection of some kind.  ;o)
>
>Thanks for the info Alan.
>
>Take care,
>TTYL
>
>-- 
>Mike A. Harris
>
>
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