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About Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager for xen.org. Lars has 9 years of experience building and leading engineering teams and a track record of executing several change programs impacting 1000 users.

Lars has 16 years of industry experience in the tools and mobile sector working at ARM, Symbian Ltd, Symbian Foundation and Nokia. Lars has strong analytical, communication, influencing and presentation skills, good knowledge of marketing and product management and extensive background in C/C , Java and software development practices which he learned working as community manager, product manager, chief architect, engineering manager and software developer. If you want to know more, check out uk.linkedin.com/in/larskurth.

Personally, Lars has a wide range of interests such as literature, theatre, cinema, cooking and gardening. He is particularly fascinated by orchids and carnivorous plants and has built a rather large collection of plants from all over the world. His love for plants extends into a passion for travel, in particular to see plants grow in their native habitats.

Posts by: Lars Kurth

  1. Xen Fu rocks at OSCON July 31, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events.

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  2. Linux 3, Xen ARM, CLS and XenSummit July 26, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  3. Xen at OSCON July 25, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events.

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  4. 12 days to XenSummit July 20, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events, Xen Summit.

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  5. Xen at Silicon Valley Linux User Group July 15, 2011

    Posted in Community.

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  6. Xen.org upcoming events June 29, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events.

    1 comment
  7. Sagar Kadam: Porting Unix libc to Xen PV June 20, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  8. Xen 4.1.1 maintenance release available June 15, 2011

    Posted in Xen Hypervisor.

    6 comments
  9. XenSummit Update June 10, 2011

    Posted in Events, Xen Summit.

    1 comment
  10. George Boutsioukis: Paravirtualized audio June 8, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  11. Xen Governance Proposal Accepted June 7, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

    1 comment
  12. Xen celebrates full Dom0 and DomU support in Linux 3.0 June 2, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

    47 comments
  13. Daniel Kiper: Recovery of crashed Linux May 27, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  14. Introducing the VirtIO on Xen project by Wei Liu May 25, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  15. XenSummit Program Management Committee May 23, 2011

    Posted in Events, Xen Summit.

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  16. Xen Hackathon, Munich 13-15 September May 19, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events.

    1 comment
  17. Daniel Castro’s GSoC project: Add Xen PV block device support to SeaBIOS May 16, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  18. Xen.org Project Governance Proposal May 11, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

    1 comment
  19. Introducing Jiageng Yu and Linux based stubdom’s May 9, 2011

    Posted in Community, Xen Development.

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  20. Event Report: OpenStack Conference and Design Summit May 3, 2011

    Posted in Events.

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  21. Welcome our Google Summer of Code Students April 25, 2011

    Posted in Community.

    1 comment
  22. XenSummit North America April 20, 2011

    Posted in Events, Xen Summit.

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  23. Xen.org @ OSCON April 15, 2011

    Posted in Community, Events.

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  24. Xen.org GSoC 2011 Update April 8, 2011

    Posted in Community.

    1 comment
  25. Xen 4.1 releases March 25, 2011

    Posted in Xen Hypervisor.

    39 comments