Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager
We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! For a list of items that need work, check out the community maintained TODO
I wanted to thank everybody who submitted a proposal to speak for XenSummit. This year we had the most submissions we ever had. The XenSummit Program Management Committee, which is made up of * David Nalley (Cloudstack.org) * Donald D Dugger (Intel) * Ian Campbell (Citrix) * Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (Oracle) and * Lars
This is a guest blog post by Georg Dörn, a long-time system administrator and open source enthusiast. Georg founded his company its-doern in 2008, to develop solutions for customers entirely from open source software. The Setup On the right, you see the XEN-HA Cluster which is based on two
Just a quick reminder that, the CFP for XenSummit closes in a week and that all submissions must be received before midnight June 15, 2012 PDT. Suggested topics include: * Latest developments and features in Xen and related projects * Developments in upstream projects that impact the Xen community * Proposals on how
We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. We introduced Documentation Days, because working on documentation in parallel with like minded-people, is just more fun than working alone! Everybody who can contribute
A few months ago we started developing the new Xen.org website. It’s time for an update! Most of the framework and look & feel are now in place. The main outstanding tasks are to migrate content, update the site content where updates are needed, to put the finishing
Canonical’s release of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS now includes support for the Xen Hypervisor (version 4.1.2), Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) packages and XCP OpenStack plug-ins. The inclusion of the Xen Cloud Platform packages into Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS makes Xen more easily accessible to Ubuntu
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
We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. We introduced Documentation Days, because working on documentation in parallel with like minded-people, is just more fun than working alone! Everybody who can contribute
The OpenStack community has recently released the Essex release, which supports XCP and XenServer. A number of vendors have worked at that support including Citrix, Internap and Rackspace Public Cloud. You can find some more information about Xen support in the OpenStack Essex release at this wiki page. If you
Today, Citrix and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that it will relicense the CloudStack open source project under the Apache License and contribute the CloudStack code to the ASF. Before I explain why this is good for the Xen community and the Open Cloud, I wanted to congratulate CloudStack
Dear Community Members, Just a quick reminder that, the CFP for XenSummit is open and that all submissions must be received before midnight May 1, 2012 PDT. You have one month to get your submissions in. Note that this is much earlier than in previous years! I will also shortly