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@xen.org.
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@xen.org 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@xen.org
http://blog.xen.org | @xen_com_mgr
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