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
You may remember the Community vote on the Xen Governance Proposal: well the deadline for the vote passed a few minutes ago and I closed the vote. There was almost unanimous for the proposal: * 92% in favor * 8% abstained I also got some constructive and encouraging feedback such as: * I
This is a very short blog post as both Wim Coekaert and Ewan Mellor beat me by some time in publishing this great news: I was too busy traveling and celebrating. The fantastic news is that Linux 3.0 will have everything necessary to run Xen as both as a
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Kiper, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Daniel’s GSoC project is called Recovery of crashed Linux. Please welcome Daniel into the community. My name is Daniel Kiper. I was born and live in Poland. I am a PhD student
This is a guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Please welcome Wei into the community. Hi, all. I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Our university is said to be one of the most beautiful universities
XenSummit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open until May 31, 2011 20:00 UTC+1. More information about XenSummit can be found here. Program Management Committee: I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program Management Committee. * Boris Quiroz, Senior SysAdmin, Xen fan
Since the first Xen Hackathon in Cambridge this year, I have been asked a few times whether we will be organizing another Hackathon this year. The short answer is yes! Fujitsu will host the next Xen Hackathon in Munich. The Hackathon will take place September 13-15, 2011 (the week before
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Castro, one of our Google Summer of Code students. We will aim to publish a GSoC student introduction every Monday. Later in the year, we will publish project updates. My Name is Daniel Castro, from Bogota Colombia. I have been accepted into
One of the objectives that I was given, when I started as Xen.org community manager was to learn about the unwritten rules of how Xen.org governance works, write them down and make some improvement proposals. At this point, I wanted to present my findings and also make an
This is a guest blog post by Jiageng Yu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. This will be the first of a series of posts by our students. I am Jiageng Yu, a PHD candidate of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. My research areas
Last week I was at the OpenStack Conference and Design summit: I thought I would share a quick report of what I found cool and interesting. Obviously this won’t be a complete picture and the report is my personal opinion. Before I do this though, I wanted to remind
Google just announced the Google Summer of code students for 2011 and I wanted to take this as an opportunity to briefly introduce our students and their projects. We had 30 students applying for Xen projects: for some projects we had up to 5 students competing with each other. This
Xen.org is pleased to announce this year’s XenSummit, North America. The Summit is sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Citrix and will take place in Santa Clara, CA from Aug 2-3. More information such a exact location, information on hotels, agenda and registration will follow. We are also