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 Selected for Google Summer of Code 2010 – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xen-org-in-google-summer-of-code-2010/
- Xen.org wins award from 10th annual Linux New Media Awards : Best Open Source Solution for Cloud Computing
- Xen.org Mascot Contest – I have hired an artist to begin creating sample images for the three finalists; stay tuned.
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
- Attendee Registration for $235 – http://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd
- Xen Directions 2010
- South America – August 31 – September 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- North America – August 9 in Boston, MA as part of LinuxCon
- 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 6 – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg tagged ‘4.0.0-rc6′
- Python based migration utility for migrating your xend virtual machines to XCP – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/12/python-migration-utility-for-xend-virtual-machines-to-xcp/
- XCP Repositories on xen-unstable – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/12/xen-cloud-platform-xcp-repositories-available-on-xen-unstable/
- XCP Project Suggestions Site – http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_project_suggestions
- Xen Community Overview in Korean (thanks to Heechul Kim) – http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/XenCommunityOverview_ko.pdf
Xen Members in Action
- Kudos to Marco Sinhoreli for his efforts in creating Xen Directions South America in late August 2010
- Xen.org Mailing Lists SuperStars – Brandon Lamb, David Scott, Boris Derzhavets, Jan Beulich, and Ritu Kaur
- Welcome Mr. X for joining the xen-users mailing list; Xen.org is now officially cool 🙂
Xen Weekly Stats
- xen-users had 58 questions and 272 responses on those questions for the week – great community activity
- Xen.org Activity – 17,720 visitors for week, 54.66% use Firefox/ Chrome at 13.65%
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/XenUpdate20100319.
