Folks, The summit program is shaping up nicely -- we''ve received talk proposals from a whole host of interesting Xen-related projects that I haven''t previously heard of. We''ve decided to go for a two track program which will allow more space for attendees, hence we can now open registration more widely -- consider the link to the registration site below now open to everyone on a first come first served basis. We''re still very interested to hear talk proposals but please send a few sentences to summit-talks <at> xensource.com ASAP as we want to get the sessions finalized. Hope to see you at the summit! Best, Ian We are pleased to announce that IBM has generously offered to host the 4th Xen Summit, which will be held April 17-18 2007 at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY <http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_ykt.shtml> . Click here <https://www.regonline.com/124479> to register now IBM is one of the most active contributors to the Xen project, and has been one of its strongest supporters. We are grateful for IBM''s support. Lodging You are responsible for your own lodging and travel arrangements. A list of recommended nearby hotels is here <http://www.watson.ibm.com/lodging.shtml> . Fees The event fee covers our costs for event management and meals/breaks during the day at the event, as well as the Summit social event. A limited number of discounted seats is held for starving .org, .edu and non-sponsored contributors. We will hold a dinner and social event on April 17th at The Boston Billiard Club, Danbury CT <http://www.bostonbilliardclub.com/danbury.htm> , which is 1/2 hour by road from TJ Watson. By popular request there will be a repeat of the snooker competition that we had in San Jose, with cool prizes. Call for Presentation Proposals The Xen Summit will include two full days of technical discussion and working meetings. There will be opening and closing plenary sessions, and up to two tracks of parallel sessions during the remainder of the meeting. We invite you to submit proposals for presentations and/or tutorials on any of the topics below, or indeed any other topic of importance to the Xen development community. Areas of interest include: * Xen Project roadmap * Xen Security roadmap * Core hypervisor roadmap * x86/ia64/ppc and other ports * Integrating smart I/O hardware * Benchmarking and performance optimization * Testing * Xen Control Stack roadmap * Linux Paravirt_ops and upstreaming * Solaris, *BSD and other OSes * Improving emulated device support * SCSI, Framebuffer and other driver support * Research projects using Xen * Interoperability with other virtualization platforms Please send a paragraph proposing your topic and desired presentation length (plan for 1/2 hour sessions) detailing the specific technical area and contribution you will make. As with previous summits, all the talks presented will be collected to appear as PDFs on the summit web site. We would ideally like papers to be accompanied by a written mini-paper, to augment the presentation. Please submit your proposals to summit-talks <at> xensource.com ASAP. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel