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
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.
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.
RELEASE-4.0.1 has been tagged in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Browsing the above URL will show the mercurial changelog contains many many bug fixes since 4.0.0. We recommend all users to upgrade. A source tarball will soon be available from http://www.xen.org/
The Xen.org community is actively looking for speakers at the Nov 3-4 Xen Summit Asia at Samsung in Seoul, Korea. Please submit topic abstracts at http://xensummit.org
From Ian Campbell: As previously discussed we would like to relicense libxc under the LGPL. https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/07/26/xen-org-source-code-license-change-request/ http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01378.html We have now managed to track down all but one of the necessary contributors in order
Xen Summit Asia 2010 in Seoul, Korea (Nov 2-3) is now accepting applications for topics/speakers at http://xensummit.org. This online tool allows speakers to enter topics/abstracts and submit papers if they so choose for review by the Program Committee. Please enter your ideas at this site so