From Keir: The first release candidate for Xen 4.0.0 has been tagged and published. You can grab it from here: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg (tagged ‘4.0.0-rc1’) Please test it!
Here are the latest results of the Survey: 59 Votes Submitted 45 Votes YES (80%) 14 Votes NO (19%) If you haven’t voted, please do soon as I plan to finalize the votes later this week.
While in China at Xen Summit Asia last year, I was asked by several people why the Xen.org community doesn’t have a mascot like other open source projects. I discussed this idea with several people and even have some ideas for a mascot; however, I would like to
I am upgrading the blog theme from version 2.0 to version 2.2. My fingers are crossed that I got everything right but just in case, the blog may work strange for the next few minutes while I do the update and fix any issues.
As I did in early 2009, I am posting my community manager goals for 2010 to give everyone a better sense of my priorities for the year relating to Xen.org. Of course, the basics of running the community are always a priority but I try and focus my additional
The Xen.org community is hosting a booth at Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) from February 19-21, 2010. If you are interested in attending this event and helping out at the booth, I have passes! As I did at CloudWorld last year, you are free to promote your solution at
From Keir: I plan to tag -rc1 later this week. If you have any outstanding patches, please send them to the list now.
For those of you trying to use the Search function on this site – I have added a new search tool on the right sidebar under the Event Calendar. The search tool on the header is not working and I am still investigating that issue.
From Ahmed Kamal at http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2010/01/taming-xen-cloud-platform-consoles.html. Here is his post with great technical detail on running XCP: At $dayjob I have been studying Xen Cloud Platform inside out, and all in all I like it a lot! The API rox, it’s very extensive
“Cloud Computing the Xen Way” – I have published a short article in the January edition of Latinux Magazine The article focuses on the newly launched Xen Cloud Platform project within the Xen.org community. I encourage everyone to check out this article and help support Latinux Magazine which is based
The xen.org Bugzilla system was down again but I have restored the system. Please return to normal usage.
Xen Community: Welcome back to everyone from the extended vacation (if you got one). I have updated the last Weekly Update for Xen.org (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUpdate20091231) but will not be promoting that out to all the various external community sites. I am working on my three