AB Meeting/September 2013 Minutes

Attendees

• Lars Kurth (chair, Citrix, non-voting)
• Mark Hinkle (Citrix, non-voting)
• Guido Trotter (Google)
• Sherry Hurwitz (AMD)
• Susie Li (Intel)
• Ian Pratt (Bromium)
• Matt Wilson (AWS)
• Daniel Kiper (Oracle)
• Ajit Sangiri (Cisco)
• James Bulpin (Citrix)
• Demetrious Coulis (CA)
• Todd Benzies (LF, non-voting)
• Mike Dolan (LF, non-voting)

Quorum achieved

Agenda

File:Xen Project AB Meeting September16.pdf

Status Updates

Test Framework Working Group Status

This group is steering the work and program, setting the requirements, decides where we host test infrastructure, signing off decisions, etc. In terms of people who should represent companies: This is a not an engineering position. Moving forward the program.

Status: Alex Brett will give overview at Xen Dev Summit Best opportunity this year to launch the working group

• 
   Action Guido:: to reach out to OSL and cc Lars ✓
• 
   Action James:: to push for Alex Brett to get his time signed off ✓
• 
   Action All:: to provide reps by the end of the week ✓

PR Messaging and Working Group

• 
   Action Daniel from Oracle:: will provide name of member in October
• 
   Action Larry from Calxeda:: should be Karl Freund, VP Marketing, Calxeda (Larry to send info to Lars) ✓

Opportunity to influence Jennifer PR meeting – Larry and Mark will join Lars in this meeting

Mirage OS Press Release

• Encapsulating workloads as micro-VMs and then running this on a hypervisor
  • Boot very quickly and very small
  • Use case: secure, small applications in the cloud
  • Internal uses: XenServer, big potential for testing
  • Works with any version of Xen
• This is a Xen subproject
• 2 free press release from LF (1 has been used)

Vote|Motion:  Motion to use Mirage OS 1.0 as press release PASSED by 9 votes

Thoughts: could do a blog post with some further compare/contrast

• 
   Action Matt Wilson (AWS), Guido Trotter (Google): to both ask to get a quote for the press release
• 
   Action Lars: Inform Jennifer and make introductions ✓
• Otherwise we could look to Citrix, Sherry think Microserver group could care… but needs to think about this.

Jennifer will think through this as well, and see how to weave in

Timing: Release is October 22nd – so that week or the following week

Travel Fund Request

Luwei Cheng Need to make it clear what the ceiling is to him Xen has $6k currently remaining for developer community Daniel (Oracle) and Guido (Google) move to increase request $2,000. Tell him he is approved to $1500 (but will pay up $2000)

Vote|Motion:  Motion PASSED by 9 votes

Strategy

How to measure success: possible metrics

1. of paper submissions
2. of people turning up to events
3. of people viewing (website views)
4. conversations on the forums and lists
5. of users (aka downloads)
6. activity by org (email domain)

PR Metrics

1. media reports (in response to press release)
2. stories related to xen (unsolicited)
3. xen blog contributions (#, orgs)
4. xen industry talks (#, events, orgs)
5. aggregate user list + forum conversations

Metrics to add to middle bucket per Larry:

1. of cited academic papers
2. ecosystem around Xen