Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager
After spending almost a week in Shanghai for the Xen Project Hackathon it is time to write up some notes. More than 48 delegates from Alibaba, Citrix, Desay SV Automotive, GlobalLogic, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, Oracle, Suse and Visteon Electronics attended the event, which covered a wide range of topics. I
We recently introduced the new Xen Project Test Lab, a key piece of infrastructure to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. As stated earlier, “we are serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and, whenever possible, eliminating any adverse effects from defects, security vulnerabilities or
One of Xen Project’s highest priorities is to continually work to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. We’re serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and, whenever possible, eliminating any adverse effects from defects, security vulnerabilities or performance problems. Our users run some of
This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (formerly known as OPW/Outreach program for Women). Outreachy is the successor of the Outreach Program for Women. Please see its page for the information about the May 2015 round of interships. Outreach Program for Women
I am pleased to announce the next Xen Project Hackathon to be held this spring. Â Although we call it a Hackathon, the event consists of several parallel sessions in which Xen Project developers will create, discuss and review designs and changes that impact Xen’s architecture. We’ll perform
Before Christmas, the Xen Project ran a community consultation to refine its Security Problem Response Process.  We recently approved changes that, in essence, are tweaks to our existing process, which is based on a Responsible Disclosure philosophy. Responsible Disclosure and our Security Problem Response Process are important components
Going to FOSDEM’15? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. Here they are the talks, in some more details: * OpenStack and Xen: Deploy your OpenStack cloud on the Xen hypervisor
A few weeks ago, I went onto a road trip to China with the aim to meet Xen Project users as well as contributors. When I was planning the trip, it became apparent that many of the developers in China are new to the project and had difficulties with Xen
It has been a while since we held the Xen Project Developer Summit. All slides have been posted on our slideshare channel (prefixed with XPDS14) and are also available on youtube. Slides and videos are also available on the presentation & video page of our website (again, just search for
The recent XSA-108 vulnerability resulted in a lot of media coverage, which ended up stress-testing some of our policy and security related processes. During the embargo period of XSA-108, the Xen Project Security Team was faced with some difficult questions of policy interpretation, as well as practical issues related to
Only last week, the Xen Project team was at OSCON where we launched Mirage OS 2.0 (event report to follow soon, but in the meantime check out the following sessions Nymote and Mirage, Floss Weekly on Mirage OS and Community War Stories) and now our Developer Summit is just
I am pleased to announce the schedule of the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014. The Project’s second annual developer event highlights best practices, user testimonials and advancements with the industry-leading open source hypervisor. Powering many of the world’s