Xen.org Weekly Newsletter Vol 10 No 13

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 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/
• CFP with Extended Deadline for VHPC 10 – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/31/cfp-with-extended-deadline-5th-workshop-onvirtualization-in-high-performance-cloud-computing-vhpc10/

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 9  – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg tagged 4.0.0-rc9
• HXEN Developer Request – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/03/29/hxen-project-on-xen-org/

Xen Members in Action

• Xen.org Mailing Lists  SuperStars -  Kishore Kumar, Paolo Rivetti, and Jeremy Fitzhardinge

Xen Weekly Stats

• Project Golden Ratio – March statistics and final Q1 statistics will be posted today on blog

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/XenUpdate20100402.