Xen.org Weekly Newsletter Vol 10 No 6

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

• Call for Papers
  • September 27th and 28th, 2010 “Linux Konferenca” an annual Linux and OSS conference (http://linux-konferenca.org) will be held in the country of Slovenia.  NOTE : George Dunlap will be presenting on Xen at this event but more Xen speakers are welcome
  • 5th Workshop onVirtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC’10 as part of Euro-Par 2010, Ischia-Naples, Italy (http://vhpc.org/)
• Xen.org Mascot Contest – Time to Vote https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/02/03/xen-org-mascot-contest-time-to-vote/
• Xen Mirror Sites for XCP – I am in the process of setting up several mirror sites to support XCP downloads; stay tuned for these links next week

Xen Events

• SCALE 2010 in Los Angeles, CA from Feb 19-21, 2010
• Xen Summit North America April 28-29, 2010
  • DATE CHANGE – New Date is April 28-29, 2010
  • Accepting speakers/topic submissions until March 31 https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/02/02/xen-summit-north-america-at-amd-accepting-topics/
• Citrix Synergy May 11 – 13 in San Francisco, CA: If you are interested in assisting at the booth (and showing your Xen related solution) please contact stephen.spector@xen.org
• SouthEast LinuxFest 2010 June 12-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC: If you are interested in assisting at the booth (and showing your Xen related solution) please contact stephen.spector@xen.org
• 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 2 Available – http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg
• Xen Cloud Platform
  • Installing XCP Overview – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/02/09/xen-cloud-platform-installation/
  • Launching VM on XCP using Open XenCenter – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/02/10/launching-vm-on-xcp-with-open-xencenter/
• Xen.org overview pamphlet available in Polish – http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/XenPamphlet_po.pdf; thanks to Igor Wawrzyniak
• Xen.org overview slides available in Japanese – http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/Xen_Overview_Japanese.pdf; thanks to Yusuke Yoshida

Xen Members in Action

• Mailing List Activity – Jan Beulich, Yunhong Jiang, Sheng Yang, Boris Derzhavets, Matthieu Patou, and Mike Viau
• 188 xen-users responses to 50 questions
• 195 xen-devel responses to 30 questions and 44 patches

Xen Weekly Statistics

• Project Golden Ratio Weekly Data
  • 21,177 visitors to Xen.org
  • Taiwan – 4th highest traffic source with 947 visits

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/XenUpdate201002125.