Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter.
Xen News
- Xen.org Mascot Contest – Please submit your vote by Sunday night as I will declare the three finalists on Monday
- Xen.org Interview with The BitSource.com – http://www.thebitsource.com/open-source/xen-in-antarctica/
- Xen.org at SCALE – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/02/22/xen-booth-at-scale-picture
- The CafePress Xen Store (http://www.cafepress.com/xen_org) is having a sale on clothing – 20% of using code APP20
Xen Events
- Xen Summit North America at AMD April 28-29, 2010
- Speaker Topics Submission – Submit at http://xensummit.org
- Local Hotels – http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_amd10/HotelListing.pdf
- Citrix Synergy May 11 – 13 in San Francisco, CA – Looking for booth volunteers
- SouthEast LinuxFest 2010 June 12-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC – Looking for booth volunteers
- Bring Xen.org to an event near year – Do you know of an event near you that would be served by having a Xen.org booth? If so, I have a proposal for working together to support that event; https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/01/28/bring-xen-org-to-your-local-event/
Xen Products
- Xen 4.0 Release Candidate 4 Available for Testing – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg TAG = 4.0.0-rc4
Xen Members in Action
- MAJOR thanks to Heechul Kim from South Korea who attended the SCALE event to show his management product as well as answer Xen questions
- Boris Quiroz and Marco Sinhoreli are currently drafting a new article on Xen Cloud Platform for Linux Magazine in Brazil
- Thanks to Marco Sinhoreli, Keith Coleman, Carpathia Hosting, and Anatoliy Poloz for offering to assist with a mirror site for XCP downloads; still working to enable this feature for Xen.org
- Seb Spiers who is assisting in the creation of new online forums for Xen.org community; expect to see these forums in a few weeks to replace current trial forum on Zoho
- Xen.org Mailing Lists SuperStars – Ian Tobin, James Troup, Daniel Stodden, George Dunlap, Jan Beulich, and Ravi Kerur
Xen Weekly Stats
- Project Golden Ratio Statistics will be posted on Monday next week as the month of February closes – this is the first opportunity for the community to see monthly comparison data
The complete newsletter with all data including the summary of all xen-users/xen-devel/xen-api mailing lists can be found at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUpdate20100226.
