To Xen Community: I have recently taken on the role of Program Manager for the Xen.org community and am responsible for the website, Xen Summits, technology promotion, and other various activities related the growth and well being of the overall community. Please take the time to revisit Xen.org and review some of the new content available including the Xen 3.3 Roadmap <http://xen.org/xen/roadmap.html> now posted. If you have any questions on the community or would like to provide feedback please send me an email at stephen.spector@citrix.com <mailto:stephen.spector@citrix.com> or join the newly formed xen-community@lists.xensource.com. I have been working on several alternatives for the Spring 2008 Xen Summit and would like to offer the community an opportunity to provide feedback. Citrix is going to sponsor the Spring Summit and currently does not have the facilities capable of supporting the event so I am considering hotels and convention centers. The current sites being proposed are: * April 9 - 10 or 10 - 11: Boston Sheraton Hotel (USA) * Room rates at $219.45 * April 14 - 15 : Vancouver Hyatt (Canada) * Room rates at $212.75 (includes tax) * May 14 - 15: : Boston John Hynes Convention Center (USA) * No associated hotel; will work to find several locations providing discounts * May 29 - 30 : Vancouver Convention Center (Canada) * No associated hotel; will work to find several locations providing discounts I anticipate the 2 day event costing between $250 to $300 (US) per person with the usual discounts in place for students. Besides the technical sessions, we will also have an evening out on the first night to ensure some good cheer is added to the event. Please provide any feedback on these proposed locations and dates directly to me at stephen.spector@citrix.com or xen-community@lists.xensource.com. I will be posting the comments and final decision later this week or early next week depending on the responses. Thank you, Stephen Spector Sr. Program Manager, Xen.org Citrix Systems, Inc. 954.267.2853 stephen.spector@citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Stephen Spector
2008-Jan-25 14:40 UTC
[Xen-devel] Xen Summit Spring 2008 Proposal - UPDATE
To Xen Community: As a follow-up to the email I sent on Wed the 23rd; a new opportunity for Xen Summit has just been presented to me and I wanted to share the idea with the community for feedback. The USENIX organization has approached our community to combine Xen Summit with their 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/hotel.html> , June 22-27, 2008 in Boston, MA. The details of how this would work are not complete, but we would have an opportunity to strongly influence the virtualization discussions at the event as well as take a large branding position at the event to ensure that Xen awareness among the attendees is high. This would move back the event 1 - 2 months from the proposal I sent earlier this week, but it would greatly enhance the exposure of Xen and perhaps introduce the project to new developers, testers, and consumers. It would also allow you to expand your travel budget and time by offering 2 conferences for the price of 1. Please send all feedback on this to myself directly; stephen.spector@citrix.com or the community mailing list; xen-community@lists.xensource.com. Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier email and to those of you who will respond to this email. Stephen Spector Sr. Program Manager, Xen.org Citrix Systems, Inc. 954.267.2853 stephen.spector@citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel