Maty Asay points us to .. yet another incomplete list of Open Source events on this planet

Now if one could just make either an RSS feed of this or a create a calender out of it so we can integrated it in our favourite calendaring client. Or just create a group on upcoming and keep that group consistently filled up.

They probably should already add Fosdem.org and Linuxtag.org 2007
as the dates for those conferences are already announced.

They should also keep an eye on Sven Guckes page as he has some updates on events.
and als on Martin Schulzes page

Anyone else knows some locations where to …

I'm on the select board of elite people who were duped into reviewing proposals for the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo 2008, and I'm here to tell you how to get your proposal accepted. Aside from bribing me with chocolate, that is.

Skoll is a Community-Based Testing project out of the University of Maryland. Their first testing framework comes for MySQL. Watch Sandro Fouché, graduate researcher on this project, take you through what Skoll is, how it’s beneficial, and how you can use it with an actual demo. The Skoll testing client for MySQL can be downloaded here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/skoll/contribute/

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So, we did it! New Best Tech Videos site version has been released today. Of course, it could have some issues, and we are really looking forward for your feedback on our support forums.

Let’s review main improvements we’ve made here:

• First of all, I want to mention our first step to socialization of the BTV - all our users could signup now and get their own lists of favorited, commented and voted videos and much more - they could have their own personal RSS feeds.
• Next cool thing we’ve prepared for you is user-generated content! You can find some great videos on the Net and share them with fellow BTV readers. At this moment our posting system works in pre-moderated mode to keep really high level of videos we post here, but later we want to delegate …

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Need I say more? Go download the slides, video and audio from the 2007 MySQL Users Conference & Expo. I have no plans to take anything down, so please download wisely, and take only what you need. If there’s demand, I can make higher-quality versions available. I can also burn DVD’s of the content if that’s desired.

Enjoy!

Tony (my fiancee) says it best — he’s an amazing writer. For some history, I work for a dating site that caters to gay men:

MySQL is database software. Whenever a computer program or system (like, say, a gay man’s online dating service) needs to randomly access, store, and keep track of a bunch of data “stuff” (like, say, a bunch of fruits, their personal information and, uh, “vital statistics”), it puts it into and maintains a database.

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is a very popular, very good database system. It’s the one Sheeri uses at her job, and my company is currently test-driving a new way to put together web sites that relies on a MySQL database.

An interesting feature of it is that it’s what’s called “open source” software. That means that the community of users is also largely the community of developers. Anyone using the software who …

mysqlconf mysqlconf07

“What societies value is what they memorize. And how they memorize it and who has access to its memorized form determines who has power.”

We’re starting to become a society that “memorizes” private facts — not just public records being written down, but private thoughts, dreams and wishes.

“Living largely in a world of expensive written material and seeking to build a private database of things experienced and learned, early modern Europeans built in their minds memory palaces — imaginary rooms furnished with complex bric-a-brac and decorations. . . By walking through the rooms of the memory palace in their minds, [they] remembered things they needed to know.”

Photographs took a factual and emotional snapshot of experience …

My slides from the tutorial are posted on the Develooper talks page. I'll add a link to Jays slides when he posts them.

I am giving a tutorial ("Real-world MySQL Performance Tuning") at the MySQL conference Monday afternoon. I giving it with Jay Pipes and I think it's going to be pretty fun. We are covering quite ways to think about similar problems (and when we have overlap we often disagree! Talk about getting a "two-for-one"! :-) I did a trial run of my longer version for la.pm a month ago and I think I figured out how to pace the length, but we'll see on monday. It's tricky! I had the 45 minute version down pretty well, but in December I gave a one hour version at the Web Builder conference in Las Vegas and that was too little time for the version I had there to be as fun as it should be.

Uh oh, our tutorial is …

Technocation is proud to announce its first grant to help further the goals of IT professionals. We have helped Proven Scaling’s “Free Ride” to give three people all-expense paid trips to the MySQL conference happening at the end of April. We are proud to have been able to grant Proven Scaling $300 to help, and we hope this is the first of many monetary grants we will give.

Congratulations to the Free Ride winners:
Jan Lehnardt, a student from Münster, Germany; J.R. Bullington, from a non-profit in Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA; and Carlos Proal Aguilar, from a non-profit in Puebla, Mexico. For more details on the contest winners, see Proven Scaling’s announcement at http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/03/31/mysql-conference-expo-free-ride-winners/

This grant was made possible by everyone who donated to …