Xen.org Weekly Newsletter Vol 10 No 12

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.
Xen News

• Xen 4.0.0 release scheduled for middle of next week
• Xen.org selected for Google Summer of Code 2010 – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xen-org-in-google-summer-of-code-2010/
• Xen.org Mascot Contest –Initial artist images are in review with the three contestants; I expect to launch final voting process late next week with images to assist voters in selecting their favorite
• iPhone App for Xen.org? https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/25/iphone-app-for-xen-org-community/

Xen Events

• Xen Summit North America at AMD April 28-29, 2010
  • Speaker Topics Submission – Submit at http://xensummit.org
  • Local Hotels – http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_amd10/HotelListing.pdf
  • Attendee Registration for $235 – http://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd
• Xen Directions 2010
  • South America – August 31 – September 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • North America – August 9 in Boston, MA as part of LinuxCon
• Citrix Synergy May 11 – 13 in San Francisco, CA – Looking for booth volunteers
• SouthEast LinuxFest 2010 June 12-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC – Looking for booth volunteers
• 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 4.0 Release Candidate 7 & 8  – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg tagged 4.0.0-rc7 and 4.0.0-rc8
• XCP Tutorial – Launching Windows 7 Guest https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xcp-tutorial-creation-of-a-windows-7-guest/
• XCP Tutorial – Network Connections for Guests https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/19/xcp-tutorial-network-connections-for-a-guest/
• XCP Tutorial – Installing Windows PV Drivers https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/22/xcp-tutorial-installing-windows-pv-drivers/
• XCP Fix for CentOS/RHEL 5.4 – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/22/xcp-fix-for-centosrhel-5-4-vms/

Xen Members in Action

• Thanks to Thiago Martins for his instructions to run Xen 4.0.0 RC8 on Ubuntu https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/26/steps-to-try-xen-4-0-0-release-candidate-8-on-ubuntu-lucid-10-04-64-bits/
• Xen.org Mailing Lists SuperStars – Pasi Kärkkäinen & Weidong Han

Xen Weekly Stats

• Project Golden Ratio – March statistics and final Q1 statistics will be posted late next week
• xen-users had 51 questions and 144 responses on those questions for the week
• Xen.org Activity – 20,800 visitors for week, 1,378 went to Tutorial Support Page (http://xen.org/support/tutorial.html)

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/XenUpdate20100326.