Xen Community:

I have started looking for possible locations and dates for our Xen Summit North America 2010 event and have an option for your consideration. I have added my thoughts after presenting the basic information.

Dates: Week of March 13th

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Sheraton Station Square)

Event: ACM ASPLOS XV Conference (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/CALCM/asplos10/doku.php) / VEE [March 17-19] (http://www.veeconference.org/)

PROs:

· I like the idea of co-locating the Xen Summit with the VEE event

· Costs – anytime we co-locate our event we can save budget costs

CONs:

· Location – Pittsburgh is not an International friendly airport ; would require an additional flight within US for European and Asian attendees

· Dates – We would need to host our event after VEE (20-21) which is a Saturday-Sunday which I am not a fan of or before VEE (15-16) but am not sure that is an option for us

· Attendee – I don’t know of any Xen developers in the Pittsburgh area so this would require EVERYONE to need a hotel

So, what are your thoughts? Please email privately to me or publically to the community on this idea. I am still looking for other dates/locations/etc and am open to all suggestions.

Thanks.

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Stephen Spector

Community Manager, Xen.org

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