Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager
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As part of the move of Xen to the Linux Foundation, I have made a few proposals for Governance changes on the Xen Project mailing lists in the last few weeks. To avoid voting fatigue, several proposals are up for review or voting: * For vote: Xen Project Governance v2 * For
Xen 4.1.5 and 4.2.2 Releases We are pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.1.5 and 4.2.2 maintenance releases. These are immediately available from their respective Git repositories and from the Xen Project download pages * Xen 4.1.5 Download page
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The move of the Xen Project from Citrix to a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project will have a number of implications for Xen Websites, which will be fully implemented in the coming weeks. * For trademark reasons all xen.org sites will be migrated to the xenproject.org domain in the coming
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Almost a year ago, I floated the idea within Citrix of finding a non-profit home for the Xen Project. At this point, I had worked for and with the Xen community for just over a year. We only just implemented community-led Governance and it was clear that at some point
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Build a Cloud Day, February 22, Los Angeles, CA, USA As last year, a Build a Cloud Day will be held at SCaLE 11x, where Joe Brockmeier will give an overview of Xen and XCP. SCaLE 11x, February 23 – 24, Los Angeles, CA, USA Xen.org will also again be
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This year’s FOSDEM is now over, and I finally made it back home. FOSDEM was buzzing, there was great content, lots of beer, meeting old friends and makign new friends. The number of attendees was impressive: according to the organizers – all volunteers – more than 5,000 open source enthusiast
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Xen Document Day: January 28 We have the first Xen document day of 2013 come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! All you need is to join
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The OpenMirage project is seeking to become a Xen.org hosted project, as defined in the Xen Governance process. To become a Xen.org hosted project, a project proposal is needed that is first submitted for community review. The review is followed by a vote by eligible community members, which
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It’s almost 2013! Time to complete our review of 2012. In the first part of this article, we looked at the progress the Xen community made in terms of Governance, Community Diversity, Event Presence and covered cool Xen features that will land in 2013. In this article we will
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It is the time of the year, when it is worth looking back and assess how we have done. For me, 2012 has been an exciting year with many positive changes in the Xen community. Not everything, I wanted to achieve has been achieved, but all in all we managed
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Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 has been released! The release is available from the download page: * XCP 1.6: Download (Xapi source) New features and Improvements XCP 1.6 has many new features and improvements, most notably Storage XenMotion, Live VDI Migration, improved integration with
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A few weeks ago, we launched our first XCP User Survey. We nearly had 500 responses when I compiled a preliminary analysis of the survey results. First, I wanted to thank everybody who participated. Of all respondents 38% of respondents are using XCP today, 40% are evaluating XCP or planning