AB Meeting/January 2015 Minutes

= Attendees =
* Lars Kurth (chair)
* Laura Kempke (LF)
* Sarah Conway (LF)
* Mike Woster (LF)
 
* Larry Wikelius (Cavium) 
* James Bulpin, Mark Hinkle (Citrix)
* Daniel K (Oracle)
* Jun Nakajima (Intel) 
* Antony Messerli (Rackspace) 
* Guido Trotter (Google)
* Philippe Robin (ARM) 
* Chris Schlaeger (Amazon Web Services) 
* Sherry Hurwitz (AMD)
 
Quorum
 
= Agenda =
== Introductions (Laura, Mike) ==
* Laura Kempke, Vice President of Collaborative Projects Operations and Marketing.
 
Laura runs Operations & Marketing for Collaborative Projects at the LF : will be joining the call going forward as primary resource. 
Goal: help streamline services.
 
 send Lars contact details; set up a face-2-face at CollabSummit
 
== Planning (Lars) ==
* Objectives for 2015 (attached)
=== AR & PR (Sarah) ===
* Goal: 2-3 press releases per quarter to keep momentum going
* Increase Linux.com contributions
* Messaging: Focus on unikernel, containers, security, etc.- see XenProjectPRPlan2015 for a draft plan. We also call this the "innovation" narrative
* Get more strategic around narrative at key events to keep up media momentum. Part of the goal is re-use of content on different channels (e.g. at CollabSummit, create materials that can be used at the Xen on booth, etc)
* Case studies: open opportunities there – openstack super user type content. Cloud users, Mirage users, users of experimental features, etc.
* We would try and feature case study content on Linux.com, Xen Blog as well as vendor blogs
* Analyst: get more systematic and nominate a spokesperson
 
 to share document and provide success metrics
=== OpenStack (Lars) ===
* LARRY: NFV – OpenNFV project and group which is part of the Linux Foundation. Should we be more creative? Should we try to hook into sessions at the CollabSummit.
* LARS: The number one issue we have to today is with the quality of the Xen integration. I would like to focus on improving this first and not raise expectations that can't be fulfilled
: ASIDE: Having talked to Bob Ball, it seems feasible that we should be able to get into Quality Group B with Xen+Libvirt for the Kilo release in May 2015
* LARS: Status – Anthony Perard (Citrix) has fixed all issues that prevent OpenStack tests from failing. The next step is to set up the CI loop.
* LARS: In essence we need to run the CI loop (using nested virt) initially at one cloud provider (to get to group B) and two cloud providers to get to group A. I am not exactly sure what the costs are, but a rough estimate was 20-25 VMs that we either would have to fund or a vendor would volunteer to provide it.
* ANTONY: last summer I was talking to Bob Ball (Citrix) to get Xen + Libvirt going again. 
* LARS: I was aware of this effort, but the problem at the time was that no-one would step up to lead such an effort, so it didn't go anywhere. I was hoping that Suse or Oracle would step up. I believe this is now fixed, as I can lead such an effort, but of course I would prefer if someone else would step up and get engaged.
 Lars follow up on details with Bob Ball 
 
* ANTONY: There is not really going a lot going on around Xen in OpenStack. Definitely should try and get that going.
* ANTONY: On the Cost of CI loop: 20-25 VM’s – Bob used Rackspace for XenServer and he should know more. I can check whether Rackspace would be able to donate some capacity to the project.
 
 ask whether Rackspace could donate some capacity for the CI loop. 
* ANTONY: 20-25 seems to be a lot. Tests only runs on commits. 
 Anthony, Bob & Lars to sync off-line and verify assumptions meeting set up for Jan 28th, including Konrad R Wilk
=== Developers (Lars) ===
* Lars asked whether anyone employed a GSoC or OPW student that was working on Xen in 2014
* James, yes Citrix 
* Chris, yes AWS
* Lars believes Oracle too, but was not quite sure
* Lars: Should we continue to fund OPW positions going forward?
* Mark: We should continue doing it
* Guido: GSoC, comes out of Google's budget – so there is no real cost. There are indirect network effects that are positive for the project also.
* Lars: Fully agrees - there is no question that we would not participate in GSoC when accepted
 
=== Test and Quality (Lars) ===
 defer success metrics to test wg for a more concrete proposal
== Budget ==
* Budget for 2015 (attached page 1, page 2) 
 Approved Budget & Plan
Carried - no objections
= PR Update (Sarah) =
We have done some of this as part of the above item
 
= AOB =
* Member Status, Payments, … (Linux Foundation)
 send revised contracts for STARTUP class to Ian Pratt (Bromium)
 to ping Applied Micro
 
 Did not manage to get to this point
* Xen Project Hackathon (Q2 hosted by Intel in Shanghai)
* I have been approached by the Open Invention Network about getting the Xen project into OIN – it is not quite clear to me whether this makes sense
 
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