Editing X.Org Foundation (section)

==Fields of activity==
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 free graphics stack.

* a physical annual meeting (X.Org Developer's Conference)
* Travel sponsorship: 
* The X.Org Foundation participated as an organization of the [[Google Summer of Code]] (GSoC). This allows students to participate to X.Org-related projects over the summer .
*Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC): EVoC is a GSoC-like project, funded by the X.Org Foundation. It allows students to participate to X.Org-related projects during their vacation, at any time of the year.
* Communication: Google+{{Update inline|date=July 2021|reason=Google+ has been discontinued for years at this point.}} and Twitter Google+/YouTube: Store and/or link to talk videos, slides, blog articles or G+ posts related to projects under our umbrella (Martin Peres); Twitter: Mostly security issues, random updates (Alan Coopersmith).
* There is an X.Org developer guide written by Alan Coopersmith, Matt Dew and the X.Org team; edited by Bart Massey at https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/

The X.Org Foundation organizes the annual [[X.Org Developer's Conference]] (XDC) and sponsors students to work on X.Org as part of their [[X.Org Endless Vacation of Code]] (EVoC) initiative.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC | title=The X.Org Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) | date=2008-09-21 | access-date=2014-09-14}}</ref>

The [[X.Org Server]] and [[xlib]] are the [[reference implementation]] of the [[X Window System core protocol|X protocol]], and is commonly used on Linux and UNIX; it is the fundamental technology underlying both the modern [[GNOME]] and [[KDE]] desktops and older [[Common Desktop Environment|CDE]] desktop environment; applications written for any of these environments can be run simultaneously.
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{{anchor|xutils}}Along with reference implementation of X protocol, the X.org Foundation hosts development of several [[utility software|utilities]] and example applications, including <code>xcalc</code> on-screen [[calculator]], <code>xclock</code> simple digital and analog clock, <code>xedit</code> text editor, <code>xload</code> periodically updated [[histogram]] of the average [[Load (computing)|system load]], <code>[[xterm]]</code> terminal emulator, and <code>xeyes</code> which shows, by default, a pair of eyes that follow the [[Pointer (user interface)|mouse cursor]].

As of April 2013, the Board of Directors consisted of Alan Coopersmith, Alex Deucher, Martin Peres, Matt Dew, Matthias Hopf, Peter Hutterer (Secretary), Stuart Kreitman (Treasurer), and [[Keith Packard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors | title=The X.Org Foundation Board of Directors | date=2013-04-19 | access-date=2013-04-20}}</ref>