A quick round-up of Xen events in May and an update on Xen Summit in August: for more information see the Xen Events page.
Xen @ Ubuntu Developer Summit, May 7-11, Oakland, CA
The Xen and XCP teams will be participating in the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, CA. The agenda for technical discussions is not yet quite tied down: when it is we will let you know.
Xen @ Build a Cloud Day, May 10, San Francisco, CA
Learn how to build an open source cloud cloud with CloudStack, RightScale, Ubuntu, Xen and Zenoss at the free Build a Cloud Day. Build a Cloud Days are about learning, best practices and industry insights into building elastic, scalable and profitable open source clouds. The event is held in conjunction with Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco and as a bonus you will get a free pass to the Synergy Cloud Keynotes and Solutions Expo.
Xen Day Fortaleza 2012, May 30, Brazil
Xen Day Fortaleza is a community organized evening of lectures focussing on virtualization with Xen and cloud management with Cloudstack. The event will be held on May 30, 2012 in Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. It is a free event: register here.
Xen Summit, August 27-28, San Diego, CA
Program Management Committee and CFP
First I wanted to welcome the Xen Summit Program Committee, which this year will be: David Nalley (Cloudstack.org), Donald D Dugger (Intel), Ian Campbell (Citrix), Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (Oracle) and Lars Kurth (Xen.org).
I also wantet to let you know that the community asked me to extended the deadline for the Call for Participation: the deadline now is midnight June 15, 2012 PDT. More information at the XenSummit event page.
Xen Dev Day
You should also note that we are contemplating to hold a Kernel Summit like Developer event called Xen Day alongside Xen Summit. The event would be invite. A community vote is open until Friday, Apr 27 regarding time and date preferences.
Hotel Bookings
It is now possible to book the hotel for Xen Summit. Several events will be held in the same hotel in the same week: Xen Summit, LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers Conference, Linux Kernel Summit and CloudOpen. If you plan to attend Xen Summit and any of the other events, it will be possible for you to book your hotel for the entire week for USD$170/night through any of the event sites. Note that rooms must be booked before 17:00 PST, July 27, 2012 and that there are only limited rooms available, which might fill up fast.