Sun has generously offered to host the Xen Summit, which will be held November 14-16 2007 in Santa Clara, CA. To register, please visit http://www.regonline.com/156148 Please submit talk proposals to summit-talks <at> xensource.com ASAP. The Xen Summit is an open meeting, but you must have a confirmed registration to attend. The Summit is technical in nature and is not appropriate for a non-developer audience. Priority will be given to applicants who have contributed to the Xen code base and/or whose proposal for a talk at the Summit is accepted by the relevant session organizer(s). Please see the call for presentations below. Lodging You are responsible for your own lodging and travel arrangements. A block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara at a Sun negotiated reduced rate of $134/night including breakfast and WiFi. Address: The Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Reservations: (408) 346-4620 code "XEN" OR book online directly. Fees The event is run at cost and the fee covers meals/breaks during the day at the event, and the event dinner and social. A number of free seats is held for starving .org / .edu and non-employed contributors. Social Event The Summit Dinner will be held on Nov 15th at Pedro''s Restaurant, a mile from the Sun campus. The dinner price is included in the registration fee. The address is 3935 Freedom Cir Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 496-6777 Program Committee Dan Magenheimer (Oracle), Alex Williamson (HP), Ky Srinivasan (Novell), Tim Marsland (Sun), Mike Day (IBM), Tom Woller (AMD), Keir Fraser (XenSource), Ian Pratt (XenSource) Call for Presentation Proposals The Xen Summit will include two full days of technical discussion and working meetings. We begin at 1pm on November 14th (to allow folks to fly in from the east on the day), and we will end late morning on the 16th, to allow folks to fly home prior to the weekend. 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 Real World Experience with Xen 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, eg KVM 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. Simon -- Free ESX-beating virtualization for Windows & Linux: http://www.xensource.com/Pages/XenExpress.aspx _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel