Xen.org Community Weekly Update Vol 10 No 18

Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter.
Xen News

• Xen Summit North America at AMD – April 28-29
  • Event Slides (and videos in 2 weeks) at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_spring_2010.html
  • Event Slides also available in SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/event/xen-summit-na-at-amd-2010
  • ZIP File Download of all published slides at http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_amd10/FinalPresentations.tar.gz
• Xen.org Mascot Contest (https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/05/04/xen-org-mascot-contest-winner/)
  • Voting Results: Bonsai Tree (85 Votes) – Panda Bear (92 Votes) – Zen Penguin (49 Votes)
  • Congrats to Valentin Höbel for his winning entry
• Google Summer of Code Projects Announced for Xen.org – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/05/05/google-summer-of-code-participants-announced/
• Project Golden Ratio April Statistics – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/05/04/project-golden-ratio-april-2010-data/
• Xen.org History Page Launched – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/04/26/xen-org-history-page-launched/

Xen Events

• Xen Directions 2010
  • South America – August 31 – September 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Citrix Synergy May 11 – 13 in San Francisco, CA
  • Zenoss and VMOps both participate in Xen.org booth
• SouthEast LinuxFest 2010 June 12-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC – Looking for booth volunteers
  • Xen.org makes speakers list – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/04/06/xen-org-makes-southeast-linuxfest-speaker-list/
• Xen.org booth at World IT Show (WIS) 2010 in Seoul, Korea (More info soon) – http://www.koreabusinesscentral.com/events/world-it-show-wis-2010-coex
• Xen Summit Asia – Tentative dates are Nov 2-3, 2010 in Seoul, Korea (Stay Tuned)
• Bring Xen.org to an event near year – Do you know of an event near you that would be served by having a Xen.org booth? If so, I have a proposal for working together to support that event; https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/01/28/bring-xen-org-to-your-local-event/

Xen Products

• Xen 3.4.3 Release Candidate 6  – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen.3.4-testing.hg
• Xen Research Paper Site Launched – http://www.xen.org/community/xenpapers.html (Send me your papers for addition to the current list)

Xen Members in Action

• Thanks to the Xen Summit North America at AMD Speakers for their time and effort in putting together a great event – http://www.xen.org/community/event_speakers.html
• Xen.org Mailing Lists SuperStars – Fajar A. Nugraha – Xu, Dongxiao – M A Young

Xen Weekly Stats

• April Golden Ratio Stat Highlights
  • Xen-users answer rate is 84.67%
  • Xen.org Website traffic continues to rise month over month (March – 87,449 to April – 102,234)
  • Xen.org Blog traffic continues to rise month over month (March – 21,505 to April – 25,046 )
  • Xen.org Solution Search Tool – 24.2% of all traffic clicks-thru to partner website
• Xen-Users Mailing List – 50 Questions and 94 Responses
• Xen-Devel Mailing List – 39 Questions and 200 Responses; 61 Patches

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/XenUpdate20100507.