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The X.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation chartered to develop and execute effective strategies that provide worldwide stewardship and encouragement of the X Window System and related projects (Mesa 3D Direct Rendering Infrastructure Wayland et al.).The X.Org Foundation does not provide technical guidance roadmaps or deadlines releases or supervision of any kind.The X.Org Foundation does provide communication tools (in relation with freedesktop.org) an annual physical meeting and money to help developing the Graphics stack.The physical meeting is the X.Org Developer’s Conference (XDC/XDS) which is organized once a year around September/October and alternates between the US and Europe and lasts for 3 days.Travel sponsorship: The board of directors can cover the travel and accommodation expenses to the developers who couldn’t attend an X.Org-related conference (XDC or FOSDEM?) otherwise.The X.Org Foundation is an approved organization of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
