Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety
of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an
upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader
scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions
for the newsletter at stephen.spector@xxxxxxxx
Xen News
* Xen.org Mascot - Final Survey Results
(http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/01/14/xen-org-mascot-final-survey-results/)
- Thanks to the 76 voters who responded to the survey request with an
overwhelming majority asking for the creation of a Xen.org mascot [62 YES (81%)
and 14 NO (18%]. I have now opened up a 2 week submission window for people to
submit their ideas via the Blog comment or email to myself. All submissions can
be descriptions at this time and will be included in a community vote in early
February.
* Xen Users Commonly Asked Questions Guide -
This support document is updated with December 2009 questions and continues to
be an excellent resource for Xen users. The document is available at
http://www.xen.org/files/Support/XenUsersCommonlyAskedQuestions.pdf.
* Summer Internship - The Citrix Xen team in
Cambridge, UK is looking for summer interns to work on open source Xen
projects. Complete information available at
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/01/12/citrix-summer-internship-in-cambridge-uk-to-work-on-xen/
Xen Events
* The Xen.org community is hosting a booth
at SCALE 2010 in LA from Feb 19-21, 2010. If you are interested in assisting at
the booth (and showing your Xen related solution) please contact stephen.spector@xxxxxxx
for more information.
* Xen Summit North America is scheduled for
April 21-22, 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA at AMD's facility. Event planning is
underway so stay tuned for speaking and program committee announcements.
Xen Products
* Xen 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
for testing - http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
* Xen 3.4.3 Release Candidate 1 Available
for testing - http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg
* All development authors of a 4.0 feature
should submit information on that feature to Stephen Spector so a new Xen
Datasheet can be created along with blog postings on the new product.
Xen Members in Action
* Xen Around the World Project - We
currently have 74 locations on our Google Map which has been viewed 63,467
times; check out the project at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html#Misc
* Thanks to Igor Wawrzyniak, Boris Quiroz,
Ben, Zhang Hu, Alex Vermulst, Valentin Höbel, and Yoshida Yusuke for their work
on translating the Xen.org Overview Slide set to Polish, Spanish, Chinese,
Dutch, German, and Japanese. If you can contribute your time to translate to another
language please contact Stephen Spector.
* 55 community members assisted each other
on xen-users this week & 65 community members worked together on xen-devel
* 68 patches submitted on xen-devel and 37
patches submitted on xen-api
Xen Weekly Statistics
* Project Golden Ratio (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2009/12/10/project-golden-ratio-update/)
is underway with various items being tracked. I will highlight different
numbers in the newsletter with full reports to the community on a monthly and
quarterly basis.
* Xen.org Website Stats from Jan 8 - 14
* 5,950 people visited the
Xen.org Downloads Page
* 397 downloads of new
"Hypervisor Type Comparison Document"
The complete newsletter with all data including the summary
of all xen-users/xen-devel/xen-api mailing lists can be found at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUpdate20100115.
Stephen Spector
Xen.org Community Manager
T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M:
(954) 854-4257
stephen.spector@xxxxxxx
http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr
