Lars Kurth

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

Lars Kurth
Welcoming Cavium as latest Xen Project Advisory Board member
06/03/2014

We’re excited to welcome Cavium as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project with eleven founding members, we announced five new members, including ARM, NetApp, Rackspace and Verizon Terremark. Today’s announcement of Cavium’s ThunderX™ SoC Family, a scalable family

Welcoming Rackspace as Xen Project Advisory Board member
05/19/2014

We’re excited to welcome Rackspace as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project about a year ago, we’ve announced four new members, including ARM, NetApp and Verizon Terremark. Rackspace has used Xen Project virtualization software since 2006. The company’s

Announcing the Program Management Committee for the Xen Project Developer Summit
05/14/2014

The Xen Project Developer Summit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open for two more days until May 16, 2014 11:55pm (EST). Our Program Management Committee I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program Management Committee. * Amir Chaudhry (University of Cambridge): Amir

How the Hypervisor team manages releases
05/08/2014

With the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.4 released a bit more than a month ago, the project is planning for version 4.5, so it’s a good time to outline how we manage releases. New Release Manager: Welcoming Oracle’s Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk But first I want to thank

Welcome our GSoC and OPW participants
04/23/2014

Google and the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) just announced GSoC students and OPW interns. I wanted to briefly introduce our students and interns and their projects, and ask you to welcome them to the project. We had a large number of applicants and could only take the best 7

Rackspace hosts Xen Project Hackathon, May 29-30 in London
03/27/2014

I am pleased to announce the next Xen Project Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by Rackspace in their London offices, May 29 and 30. I wanted to thank Paul Voccio and Gus Maskowitz from Rackspace for hosting the Hackathon. I also wanted to thank Rackspace for hosting the Xen

Xen Project participates in GSoC 2014 and OPW Round 8
02/25/2014

The Xen Project is pleased to announce that we have been accepted to participate in this years Google Summer of Code and that the Xen Project will also participate in Round 8 of the Gnome Outreach Program For Women.  Google Summer of Code You can find our project list

2013 : A Year to Remember
12/30/2013

2013 has been a year of changes for the Xen Community. I wanted to share my five personal highlights of the year. But before I do this, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the Xen Project in 2013 and the years before. Open Source is about bringing together

Xen Project Developer Summit Slides and Videos are Live
11/12/2013

Most of the Xen Project Developer Summit Videos and Presentations are now live on Xenproject.org. I wanted to thank all our speakers and attendees for making this year’s Xen project Developer Summit a success and am looking forward to next year’s event. A few Highlights Will Auld

Xen Project Developer Summit 2013 Videos and Presentations
11/11/2013

Talks Welcome & Community Roundup Lars Kurth, Citrix Presentation Video Xen Project Development Update George Dunlap, Citrix Xen 4.3 was the first release with our new “release coordinator” role during the whole development cycle. This talk will review some ways in which the process worked well for 4.3,

Xen Project will co-host FOSDEM'14 Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom
11/07/2013

We are pleased to announce that the Xen Project will co-host a two-day Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM’14, alongside Redhat and the Openstack Foundation. Call for Papers: Closes December 1st The Call for Papers for the DevRoom will be open until December 1st. The scope for this devroom

10 years of Xen : Transforming a Dinosaur into a Bird (or winged Panda)
10/21/2013

Xen Hypervisor development started at Cambridge University as part of the Xenoserver research project in the late 90’s. The goal of Xenoserver was ambitious: The Xenoserver project is building a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed computing. We envisage a world in which Xenoserver execution platforms will be scattered across