For those of you who like to chat via IRC I would like to announce a new group: Freenode #xen-api. This group contains developers and people interested in the XAPI toolstack used in the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) project.
There is also a dedicated group of Xen community members on Freenode ##xen who handle all things Xen.This group currently has a searchable record of all communications over the last two years at http://www.zentific.com/irclogs/.
See you in the Chat world…
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