When it comes to open source communities, most people think of contributing via software development, product testing, and online support. While all these areas are critically important to the community,…
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The Xen.org open source community is posting an open position for a summer internship - working on the design, development, and launch of a new Xen.org website. This person will…
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Xen Community: I have been working with author Matthew Sacks on an article about Open Source and Xen.org. The article is now available on InformIT with interviews from Tim Marsland…
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The Xen Champions proudly introduce a new set of slides for the community to use for any Xen.org introduction or other need. We are releasing the slides in English and…
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Become a Xen Champion: The Xen.org community and website is currently focused on serving the needs of two distinct groups: developers of the Xen hypervisor and individual users looking for…
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Xen Community: I am starting a new effort in translating the Xen.org site to multiple languages. Since I am not sure what language is most in demand and even if…
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Welcome to 2009 and what looks to be an amazing year for the Xen.org community and Xen hypervisor project. With 4 Xen Summits being planned for North America, Europe, and…
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Xen Community: As I finish my first year as community manager for Xen.org, I thought I would take a few moments to highlight some of the community’s accomplishments for 2008.…
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Yesterday I met with SourceForge.net to discuss how Xen.org can better leverage their site and community. One interesting idea which I thought worthy of community feedback was the centralization of…
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Xen Community: I have started work on an update of the existing Xen Roadmap Document that Ian Pratt wrote in July 2006. The current document is in the Xen Wiki…
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I have created a new webpage on Xen.org with a community Google calendar - http://www.xen.org/community/calendar.html. I have added 2 new events for November and content for 2009 in February and…
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Update for the community on the Xen Training Day session at USENIX LISA 2008 in 2 weeks - we have 69 people registered for the class which makes us the…
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As I presented in my 2009 Xen Summit plan, I am working to host a Xen Summit event in Germany next Summer. I recently spoke with the LinuxTAG managers and…
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Xen Community: I am getting ready to start development of the Xen Solution Search Tool that will be a part of the new Xen.org site. This tool will allow customers…
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On the new home page of Xen.org, we have a section "Xen in the Industry." This section has slides and audio/video from Ian Pratt and Simon Crosby presentations at various…
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For those of you who have not looked over the changes to the www.xen.org website, please take a look as I plan to switch to the new site this weekend…
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Ian Pratt and I were discussing the fact that open source Xen has no "mascot" like other open source projects and we joked about some possibilities (see my list below).…
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Xen.org Community: As many of you are aware, I have been working the past few months to update the current Xen.org website to better target various users of the site…
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Xen Community: As with all things in the community, I would like to give everyone a chance to comment on a new document. The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 requires…
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Pivot3 recently won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award For Best Virtualization Solution. A new case study on their solution built on open source Xen is now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Pivot3+Case+Study.pdf.
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 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
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To Xen API folks: I see that Josh West has added some feature requests to the Wiki (see list below). Also, I have posted some API functions that appear to…
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Brandeis University has been leveraging Xen for the deployment of their PeopleSoft applications. Read about their solution in the newest Xen.org Case Study at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Xen+Brandeis+Case+Study.pdf.
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I have posted a new project on the Xen.org Project page: XenAccess Library. Project Overview: When running multiple domains (or virtual machines) using the Xen hypervisor, this library will allow…
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A new Xen management project has just been posted on the Xen.org Projects Page. The source code will be available soon for anyone interested in working on this project. Screen…
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