Archived/Hackathon/March2012

When and Where ?

We confirmed the Xen Hackathon hosted by Oracle for March 6-8, 2012 at the Oracle campus in Santa Clara.

• March 6th: 9AM to 5PM
• March 7th: 9AM to 5PM
• March 8th: 9AM to 5PM

Here is the address of the campus:
4030 George Sellon Circle
Santa Clara
CA 95054

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Conference Room number and location

Oracle Campus in Santa Clara Oracle
4190 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054-1778
Building: SCA03 - Room #2100 (2nd floor)

This is building #22 on the map

Parking

AUDITORIUM PARKING: In the building 22 parking lot as well as along Palm Drive.

What is a Xen Hackathon?

The aim of Xen Hackathons is to give developers in the Xen community the opportunity to meet face to face to discuss development, coordinate, write code and collaborate with other Xen developers. It is a 3 day self-organizing event, where Xen developers work on concrete problems around the Xen codebase in small self-organizing groups. People working on

documentation and other aspects of Xen, XCP, XenARM and related projects are also welcome.

Xen developers with the following expertise will be present: Xen Hypervisor developers, kernel developers (working on Xen components in the Linux kernel), XCP developers working on project Kronos and the Xen Cloud Platform. Xen on ARM as well is MIPS will also feature in the March 2012 Hackathon.

Xen Hackathons are also great opportunities for companies and open source projects, built on Xen, XCP or commercially based Xen products to test (and fix any issues in their products) against the latest open source baselines. You will have access and be able to work on concrete code problems with Xen developers at the Hackathon.

There is no registration fee. However as an attendee you will need to cover your own travel, accommodation and other costs such as evening meals etc. We will be looking at organizing opportunities to drink beer, etc. in the evenings. If you know the area and have suggestions, please add to the wiki (see below).

Accomodation

• The closest hotel to the Oracle Campus is Hotel Sierra, Santa Clara, but it is also the priciest option.
• Santa Clara Marriott, 2700 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA
• Biltmore - Santa Clara, CA, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, CA
• Hyatt - Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA

Sign-up List

You will have to have an account on the Wiki to sign up. We had to enable Wiki accounts as we had a spam problem.

Please sign up, if you plan to attend:

• If you think you may attend, but are not sure yet add "(provisional)" to the list.
• If you can only attend part-time, please let us know which dates you want to attend.
• If you do not regularly contribute to the Xen a mailing lists, please add your e-mail address such that we can get in touch with you
• If you have any specifific dietary requirements, please add it besides your name
• Please also state your T-shirt size
• If you can't login/don't want a Wiki user, email ian.campbell@citrix.com and konrad.wilk@oracle.com

Attendees:

1. Lars Kurth, Xen.org (L)
2. Ian Campbell, Citrix. Xen.org committer (L)
3. George Dunlap, Citrix
4. Mike Hamanaka, Vertualize
5. Stefano Stabellini, Citrix
6. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Oracle, PVOPS project lead
7. Yonghong Song, Netlogic
8. Frank Zhang, CloudStack
9. Mark Hinkle, Cloudstack
10. David Nalley, Cloudstack (XL)
11. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Individual
12. Adin Scannell, Individual
13. Mukesh Rathor, Oracle
14. Qin Michael Li (M)
15. Wesley Shao, Oracle (M)
16. Ben Pfaff, Nicira, blp@nicira.com (L)
17. Jacob Ramirez, Oracle (M)
18. Kurt Hackel, Oracle (L)
19. Zhigang Wang, Oracle (S)
20. Aaron Culich, EECS at UC Berkeley (L)
21. Rob Hoes, Citrix (L)
22. Jacob Shin, AMD (M)
23. Justin Gibbs, Spectra Logic (XL)

Provisionally reserved spaces (names TBD):

• 2xGluster
• 2xInternap

Topics to Discuss

• Lars: Improving key documents, update and getting feedback on the new xen.org website
• Lars: work with Konrad on PVOPS xen.org portal
• IanC: Stub-oxenstored
• David Nalley: Zeus (packaging XAPI toolstack on Fedora/EPEL)
• Konrad: acpi fun.
• Konrad: RAS features
• Add topic here

Suggestions for Evening Social Activities

• Add a suggestion here