If you happen to use MySQL and live around Hamburg, Germany, here's your chance to meet with other MySQL users, developers and DBAs: I am happy to announce the second Hamburg MySQL Usergroup Meeting, which will take place on Monday, 3rd of July, 19:00. The location will be the same one as last time, the chinese restaurant Ni Hao in Hamburg-Wandsbek. The food there is quite excellent and they will provide us with a separate room and video projector again. I'll try to arrange a presentation about MySQL and there will be plenty of time for chatting and discussing. If you'd like to join us, please RSVP via our event page on meetup.com and join the mailing list for further details! Looking forward to meeting you! Some pictures of our last meeting are available …
[Read more]While I was at the FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels, I got approached by the folks from Source21.nl about performing an interview about MySQL with them. But as David Axmark (who is one of the co-founders of MySQL) was around as well, I quickly directed them to talk with him instead. The vidcast (length is ~10 minutes, the WMV is ~30MB) is now available online in various formats (OGG, MP4 and WMV) from their web site. Have fun.
My friends Theo Schlossnagle, Laura Thomson and Chris Shiflett are each presenting at ApacheCon Europe. They are each excellent presenters with solid content - I have seen Theo present at a previous ApacheCon, caught Laura at several OSCONs and finally saw Shiflett speak at the PHP Quebec conference earlier this year.
The deal is simple - sign up for any of their tutorials before the early bird deadline for the conference closes (on June 6th) and get complementary copies of some of the speaker’s book(s).
The sessions are:
[Read more]The 3rd international conference on GPL v3 will take place in Barcelona, Spain on June 22nd and 23rd. The international GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU General Public License.
Speakers include Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, chairman at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Georg Greve, President of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Expert panelists from all parts of Europe, and from around the world will lead discussions on licence internationalisation, DRM, software patents, and adoption of the finished licence.
The current draft of the GPLv3 and resources explaining the background to the update are availble at http://gplv3.fsf.org/
The Conference’s schedule and further information will be
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On June 24th/25th, the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany. I have submitted two talks (in english), which both got accepted: "MySQL Administration: Backup and Security Strategies on Linux" and "The MySQL Business Model: Where and how we thrive". The sessions will take place on Saturday, but I will be around on Sunday, too. In addition to my sessions, there will be two more MySQL-related talks: "MySQL Cluster: an Introduction - A journey into High Availability" by Geert Vanderkelen (one of our MySQL Cluster Support experts) and "Pivot …
[Read more]Julian Cash has been taking very cool shots of various people (attendees and employees) at the MySQL Users Conference - check them out!
At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don’t remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.
The session was a blast (and well-received), so much so that Danese and I proposed the session for last year’s OSCON. We didn’t make the cut, but I still tried again for this year’s EuroOSCON and, this time, the session was accepted.
The session should be fun to present, but a bit of a bear to write. I have only 45 minutes to try to fit in the most …
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Today I uploaded a batch of pictures into my gallery and I also re-arranged a number of albums into a separate Conferences and Events collection. The latest additions in there (yes, some should have been uploaded some time ago already!):
- EuroOSCON 2005 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Open Source Database Conference 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany
- FOSDEM 2006 Conference in Brussels, Belgium
- MySQL Developer Meeting 2006 in Sorrento, Italy …
Last night I returned home from our internal MySQL Developer
Meeting in Sorrento, Italy. The trip again was uneventful
(something I certainly don't mind) and I used it to catch up with
email and other work that I could not take care of while being at
the conference.
The event was very well organized (kudos to Carol and the rest of
the team!) and I enjoyed meeting old and new colleagues. It was
nice being able to discuss stuff from face to face and hearing
about what's cooking at the various other parts of the company in
more detail. Too bad that we sometimes had so many tracks in
parallel - it was difficult at times to decide which session to
attend without fearing to miss something else. I gave a
presentation about SUSE Linux (why it's the best Linux distro to
use) and how our developers can help to foster our user
community.
On Monday evening, we arranged a small meeting with local
community users, some of them …