Xen Community – Xen Summit North America at AMD is fast approaching and I am requesting volunteers who would like to help create the event agenda by participating in the Program Committee. The Program Committee (PC) reviews all submitted topics and chooses the final speakers for the event. If you are
For those of you active on the Xen.org community message boards you certainly can’t miss the great advice and constant assistance from Pasi Kärkkäinen. I have added Pasi as our latest Community Member Spotlight on the Xen.org home page (www.xen.org) and Community Member
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
The latest survey results for the Xen.org Mascot question are as follows: 76 total voters 62 YES (81%) 14 NO (18%) Based on the trending I am seeing, there is clearly a majority of community members who would like Xen to have a mascot. Based on these results I
From Keir — The first release candidate for Xen 3.4.3 is tagged at: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tag ‘3.4.3-rc1’) Please test
The latest version of the Xen.org slide overview in English is here.  The slides are primarily filled with images but there is some English currently on most of the slides that I would like to get translated. My goal is to have a common slide deck in
The Xen Users Commonly Asked Questions Guide is now available with updates from the December 2009 questions in xen-users. Feel free to use this document as a starting point for questions you have on Xen and also let me know if you have a question/answer pair that you would
Remember to add Xen Summit North America at AMD on April 21-22, 2010 to your business calendars. I am now actively planning the event with Program Committee formation occurring later this month and topic/speaker submission starting in early February.
This summer, Citrix Systems will be running three-month research internships at its Cambridge office. This is an opportunity for graduate students who want to work on Xen to share an office with some of the core developers of the Xen hypervisor and the Xen Cloud Platform. If you would
From Keir: The first release candidate for Xen 4.0.0 has been tagged and published. You can grab it from here: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg (tagged ‘4.0.0-rc1’) Please test it!
Here are the latest results of the Survey: 59 Votes Submitted 45 Votes YES (80%) 14 Votes NO (19%) If you haven’t voted, please do soon as I plan to finalize the votes later this week.
While in China at Xen Summit Asia last year, I was asked by several people why the Xen.org community doesn’t have a mascot like other open source projects. I discussed this idea with several people and even have some ideas for a mascot; however, I would like to