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
* Oracle completes acquisition of Sun – Info here
* Xen.org Mascot Contest – Win $100 by submitting
the best idea for a community mascot. More here
Xen Events
* SCALE 2010 in Los Angeles, CA from Feb 19-21, 2010
– If you are interested in assisting at the booth (and showing your Xen
related solution) please contact me
* Xen Summit North America April 21-22, 2010 –
Program Committee Announced
* 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 me
* 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 me
* 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 here
Xen Products
* Xen 4.0.0 Release Candidate 2 available
* New Xen Documentation – 7 new user support WIKI
pages available
* Xen.org Overview in Chinese and English
* Xen.org Slides in Portuguese
Xen Members in Action
* Busy week in Xen mailing lists – thanks to Pasi
Kärkkäinen, Daniel Stodden, Yunhong Jiang, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, and Fajar A.
Nugraha for their great support in assisting users and developers this week
* Thanks to Heechul Kim from Korea who will be assisting
me at SCALE next month
Xen Weekly Statistics
* Project Golden Ratio is underway with various items
being tracked. I will highlight different numbers in the newsletter with full
reports to the community on a monthly and quarterly basis.
* Xen.org Website Stats from Jan 14 – 21
* 18,854 visitors for week
* ~30% of all visitors from
United States (4,389) and Germany (1,384)
* 2009 SlideShare.net Stats for Xen.org (here)
* 90 Presentations Uploaded
* 25,895 viewings
* Most Popular Presentation
is Memory Management in Xen
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/XenUpdate20100129
Stephen Spector
Xen.org Community Manager
T: (772) 621-5062 | F: (772) 365-0338 | M:
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