I am back from an all too short vacation with my family and will be catching up on the mailing list email sorting, answering everyone’s emails that came in during the last few days, as well as gathering and publishing Project Golden Ratio data for May 2010.
In an effort to further promote the Xen.org community and our amazing open source technologies, I have taken it upon myself to become an open source blogger on Network World. Of course, the benefit of exposure to me is something I will have to deal with. My hope is
I am taking a few days off for a family trip and will be back doing all things Xen next Wed, June 2. There will be no community newsletter this week but I will work to ensure that all mailing list emails are tracked at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting today, minutes of the meeting are available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. I will be scheduling another meeting next month to continue the community discussion of XCP. Also, please note that XCP 0.5 will
It is time again, for the annual Xen.org community survey. I conducted this survey in 2009 and leveraged the results to make some changes in the way that information is presented on the website as well as how I plan events. This survey is a great way for the
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg (tag 4.0.1-rc1) http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tag 3.4.3-rc7) Please test!
The first open community call on the XCP project is scheduled for Tuesday – May 25th at 14:00 UTC. This was the best time I could find to accommodate as many people as possible. More info on UTC 14:00 at http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm. Dial-in information
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 Summit North America at AMD – April 28-29 * Post Event Survey at https://xenproject.org/index.
Xen Directions South America planning is underway as the Xen.org community ventures into South America for our 1st community event. The event is being held in conjunction with the Linux Foundation, LinuxCon Brazil at the WTC Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Hotel accommodations are being planned
The Open vSwitch team announced the availability of Open vSwitch 1.0.0. Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for VM environments that supports standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN,
It is time again, for the annual Xen.org community survey. I conducted this survey in 2009 and leveraged the results to make some changes in the way that information is presented on the website as well as how I plan events. This survey is a great way for the
Thanks to the Xen Summit attendees for participating in the post event survey which gives the community some much needed feedback for future Xen Summit events. The complete survey results are available here. Here are some highlights from attendees: * Just about 50-50 on first time attendees vs regular attendees * 47%