Ian Pratt, Citrix VP of Engineering, founder of the open source Xen.org community, and project leader of Xen.org was recently interviewed by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte of FLOSS Weekly. The recorded podcast is about 40 minutes long and can be accessed at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/FLOSS-067.mp3.

This PodCast is a chance to learn about the origins of the Xen.org Xen Hypervisor project, how Cloud Computing was really behind its origins, and how the Xen.org community continues to drive the leading open source hypervisor.

The open source Xen Hypervisor community, Xen.org, is hosting our first Xen Summit Asia event next month in Tokyo, Japan. The event is being hosted and sponsored by Fujitsu and is located at their Makuhari Lab located in Makuhari, Japan. The 2-day event is November 20 - 21, 2008 and will be an in-depth examination of recent research, software development, and customer deployments of the open source Xen solution. Ian Pratt will be the featured speaker at this event as he gives his "State of the Project" presentation along with ideas on future areas of development for Xen.

More information including registration instructions are athttp://xen.org/community/xensummit.html. 

For those of you looking for more information specifically on the open source Xen hypervisor, a new blog has been started on the Xen.org site. The blog can be found at http://blog.xen.org.