The last two years have seen an extraordinary level of change within the Xen Project developer and user communities. Join Lars Kurth as he opens the 2014 Xen Project Developer Summit with a short round-up of the bad, the good, and the great developments in the Xen Project.

1. Lars Kurth
Community Manger, Xen Project
Chairman, Xen Project Advisory Board
Director, Open Source Business Office, Citrix lars_kurth

2. Host Sponsor Platinum Sponsor +
Evening Reception
Gold Sponsor

3. BoF’s
Take a marker and fill in one of the slots
If you host a BoF: be there, take notes, post
on the list(s)

4. BoF’s
Take a marker and fill in one of the slots
Lunch
Not provided
Lots of places within 250 metres

5. BoF’s
Take a marker and fill in one of the slots
Lunch
Not provided
Lots of places within 250 metres
Evening Party
Bellwether (302 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL
60611) – across the road
Developer Meeting : Wed morning
wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Developer_Meeting/
Aug2014

6. The impact of moving the Project to the Linux Foundation
Success Stories : Metrics and Implications
Challenges that we are facing as a community
What is Next?

7. What was the impact of
moving the project to
the Linux Foundation?
Vinovyn @ Flickr

8. Developer Community largely unaffected
Except for growth and implications
An extra layer of Governance
Hugely increased visibility through Marketing
Funding for “Common Goods” problems
Developing Messaging/Positioning for the project
Improved Relationships, More Collaboration
More participation from different vendors at Events
Marketing is becoming a shared activity
User community engaging more
Blog posts, Q&A system, … - many “green shoots”

9. Companies Community
• PR / AR / Marketing /
Messaging
• Membership Rules /
Trademarks / Legal
• Provide funds to solve
“Common Good” problems
• Referee of last resort
• Principles (aka Values)
• Roles
• Decision Making
• Project Lifecycle
• Community Initiatives, Best
Practices, …
Advisory Board WGs
Test WG
PR WG
TCT
Project Governance

10. Secure the long term success of the Xen Project eco-system
Drive momentum of Xen Project and its sub-projects
[Hypervisor, XAPI, Mirage OS]
Sustain Industry
Awareness of
Xen Project
Expand Direct
Involvement of
User Community
with Xen Project
Grow eco-
system directory
to demonstrate
Momentum
Grow Developer
Community by
10%
Deliver Value to
Xen Project
Advisory Board
Members
Primary Goals: Secondary Goals:

11. PR and Marketing: $119 K
Increase Xen Project skills (OPW, etc.): $40 K
Supporting the Community: $35 K
Independently Hosted Test Infrastructure: $165 K
Operational: $6 K
Total: $365 K

12. The last 12 months in
numbers

13. 0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
Q1 '13 Q2' 13 Q3' 13 Q4' 13 Q1 '14 Q2 '14 July'14
Impact of AB funding
Drives Interest & User
Adoption & Contributions

14. Average monthly web visits
grew by 30%
Social Media following
grew by 47%

15. Commits &
unique Authors
per month across
PVOPS
(Xen Project files only)
Hypervisor
XAPI
Mirage OS
Skewed because different sub-
projects use different average size
commits
http://bitergia.com/projects/xen-project-dashboard/browser/ – use with care – still some issues

16. Xen-­‐devel
:
Messages
per
Month
Contributors
/
Authors
per
Month
Commits
per
Month
Authors and traffic
list are increasing
On “commits”:
feedback from
maintainers
suggests a review
bottleneck
Ohloh.net and xen.markmail.org
Highest
ever

17. Linux: 0.73 è 0.61
KVM1: 1.54 è ???
1) http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-Coverity-Scan-Report.pdf - no newer data

18. Windows PV Driver project
Lead: Paul Durrant (Citrix)
Infrastructure only partly in place
Embedded and Automotive PV Driver project
Lead: Artem Mygaiev (GlobalLogic)
Infrastructure not yet in place
Launched today, with further launch activities in the next 2 week
Mirage OS picking up momentum
PVOPS and Xen onARM achieved initial goals

21. for our Community
Maria Ly @ Flickr

22. Up to 1 week 1 to 2 weeks 2 to 3 weeks 3 to 6 weeks 6 to 13 weeks More than 13
weeks
48%
17%
9% 9% 8% 9%
43%
15%
10%
13%
11%
8%
July 2013 - Jan 2014 Feb 2014 - Aug 2013
Have no way to measure patches under review

24. The monthly average doubled
Don’t want to split the community by introducing new lists

25. Europe – US – location switch not working
(9 months – 15 months – 9 months – …)
Dividing the summit into developer – user summit?

26. Feel free to raise everything that isn’t working there

27. Vacancies and skills
Number of open vacancies is increasing
Perception: Xen Project requires special skills vs. Linux
Translating media momentum into new users
Ease of use
Onboarding and documentation
Better distro integration

28. Independently Hosted Test Infrastructure
Suppliers sourced
Budget proposal in place
Can start executing
Messaging and Positioning
Advisory Board has been working on key messages
and positioning
First Analyst Meeting
In September (or maybe aligned with a large event)

29. www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/