Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:11:15 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: glarkin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? Message-ID: <d763ac660910140311y414b9f6et8a9c6eacdb348b5a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ACFEC6E.2030109@FreeBSD.org> References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> <m3d46okfbt.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com> <4A94CD0D.8070902@prgmr.com> <d763ac660908261600i39e95e49hcd0ed44caaf17e22@mail.gmail.com> <4ACFEC6E.2030109@FreeBSD.org>
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Please contact the FreeBSD foundation and let them know that Amazon contacted you. The best thing to do IMHO is get Amazon and the Foundation discussing Xen related things before involving developers. Thanks, Adrian 2009/10/10 Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Give me a few days to get stuff together here and I'll see what I can >> do in -head. >> >> Thanks for all your offers of support. >> >> adrian >> > [...] > > Hi everyone, > > I received an email from a contact @ Amazon AWS yesterday asking about > the status of the FreeBSD Xen project. =A0He and I connected earlier this > year after a short exchange on Twitter and some emails about getting > FreeBSD AMIs running on Amazon EC2. > > I told him that there was a thread on the freebsd-xen mailing list in > August. =A0My understanding is that the primary blocker is funding for th= e > developers who have the skills required to bring the Xen support up to > production quality. =A0I also figured that it might take even more time t= o > then port to the version of Xen used by Amazon. > > I hope to hear back from him soon with his thoughts. =A0Obviously, it > would be extremely helpful if Amazon funded the development, presuming > there would be a long-term financial gain for them. =A0If anyone has any > feedback that I should relay to him, let me know. > > I also asked him if he wanted contact information for the FreeBSD/Xen > developers and other folks who are involved in the project at a high > level. =A0I'll post back here if he does. > > Best regards, > Greg > - -- > Greg Larkin > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - The Power To Serve > http://www.sourcehosting.net/ =A0 =A0 - Ready. Set. Code. > http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFKz+xu0sRouByUApARArKYAKCVziRDp71w977HHy2XpKxQsHgUXgCaA2fT > RFxGu9dVA1s39MKn0+o6520=3D > =3DZg60 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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