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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)….
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…
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…
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.
 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
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…
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.
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…
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…
In an amazing video from Virtualization.com, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon thanks you – the Xen.org community for the great Xen solution. From Video: (1:30): How hard was it to…