Xen.org is pleased and excited to announce that Lars Kurth will be our new Community Manager. Lars has lots of experience helping to organize and promote open source communities, and we’re confident that he’ll make a very positive impact. We asked Lars to provide an introduction of
Calling all Xen developers. A Xen.org hackathon was announced by Ian Campbell on the Xen devolopers list to be held at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK between March 23-25, 2011. The aim of the event is to give developers the opportunity to meet face to face to discuss
Xen.org is pleased to announce the XCP 1.0 beta release. Download it here: http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/Software/xcp-1.0-beta/ New features since XCP 0.5 include: Xen-3.4.2 Linux-2.6.32 VMPR – VM protection and recovery (scheduled backup of VMs via snapshot/export) XenCenter
Quick update on the community manager search. We’ve interviewed a number of candidates, all of whom look very promising. We’re going to be discussing them soon, and hopefully sending out offers within a reasonable time frame after that. So stay tuned!
As many of you know, XenSummit Asia 2010, originally planned for Nov 3-4 in Seoul, Korea, is being postponed. The current plan is to push back the event by about a month, and possibly expand it to include a user “XenDirections” track. Until we hire a new community Xen.org
There will be another Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) call this week on Thursday, October 14th. We’ll post an agenda and some slides before the meeting happens. If there is anything anybody particularly wants to discuss, please get in touch! Call details below: Meeting Date: Â October 14, 2010 Time:
Here is the August 2010 Project Golden Ratio data… GR_StatsAugust2010 Quick highlights for those of you not interested in all the details: * 20,874 views of the Xen.org Blog * 80.08% Answer rate on xen-users * 171 new users on the three main mailing lists (xen-users/xen-devel/xen-api) * 3,
In the September 2010 LinuxPro Magazine there is a nice article on Remus and Xen 4. I recommend picking up a copy of this issue to learn more about Xen 4 and Remus.
Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine Robert Gallagher It is with great reluctance that I announce my departure from Xen.org as your community manager. Working with the many community members from around the world over the past three years has been a highlight in my career and
Xen Directions South America in Sao Paulo is underway with plenty of great speakers from Cloud Providers, Google, Citrix, and Ian Pratt giving his standard opening thoughts on the future of Xen.org and associated technologies. Many people are taking pictures so I will be sure to post links to
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen User Group LA Video – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/26/xen-user-group-la-event-video/ * Xen Summit Asia
The Inaugural Xen User Group Los Angeles from The Bitsource on Vimeo.