Mailing List Archive

Xen Event Update, May 2012
A quick round-up of Xen events in May and an update on Xen Summit in
August: for more information see the Xen Events
<http://xen.org/community/xenevents.html> page.


Xen @ Ubuntu Developer Summit, May 7-11, Oakland, CA

The Xen and XCP teams will be participating in the Ubuntu Developer
Summit <http://uds.ubuntu.com/> in Oakland, CA. The agenda for technical
discussions is not yet quite tied down: when it is we will let you know.


Xen @ Build a Cloud Day, May 10, San Francisco, CA

Learn how to build an open source cloud cloud with CloudStack,
RightScale, Ubuntu, Xen and Zenoss at the free Build a Cloud Day
<http://cloudstack.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/74-build-a-cloud-day-san-francisco.html>.
Build a Cloud Days are about learning, best practices and industry
insights into building elastic, scalable and profitable open source
clouds. The event is held in conjunction with Citrix Synergy 2012
<http://www.citrixsynergy.com/> in San Francisco and as a bonus you will
get a free pass to the Synergy Cloud Keynotes and Solutions Expo.


Xen Day Fortaleza 2012, May 30, Brazil

Xen Day Fortaleza is a community organized evening of lectures focussing
on virtualization with Xen and cloud management with Cloudstack. The
event will be held on May 30, 2012 in Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. It is a
free event: registration and. more details will be published on xen.org
<http://xen.org> soon.


Xen Summit <http://xen.org/community/xensummit.html>, August 27-28,
San Diego, CA


Program Management Committee and CFP

First I wanted to welcome the Xen Summit Program Committee, which this
year will be: David Nalley (Cloudstack.org), Donald D Dugger (Intel),
Ian Campbell (Citrix), Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (Oracle) and Lars Kurth
(Xen.org).

I also wantet to let you know that the community asked me to extended
the deadline for the Call for Participation: the deadline now is
*midnight June 15, 2012 PDT*. More information at the XenSummit event
page <http://xen.org/community/xensummit.html>.


Xen Dev Day

You should also note that we are contemplating to hold a Kernel Summit
like Developer event called Xen Day alongside Xen Summit. The event
would be invite. A community vote is open
<http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-04/msg01511.html>
until Friday, Apr 27 regarding time and date preferences.


Hotel Bookings

It is now possible to book the hotel for Xen Summit
<http://xen.org/community/xensummit.html>. Several events will be held
in the same hotel in the same week: Xen Summit
<http://xen.org/community/xensummit.html>, LinuxCon
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon>, Linux Plumbers
Conference <http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/>, Linux Kernel Summit
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linux-kernel-summit> and
CloudOpen <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen>. If you
plan to attend Xen Summit and any of the other events, it will be
possible for you to book your hotel for the entire week for
USD$170/night through any of the event sites. Note that rooms must be
booked before 17:00 PST, July 27, 2012 and that there are only limited
rooms available, which might fill up fast.