Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Santa Clara, CA, call for papers. It will be open from now until December  22, 2017.

Our theme is “Championing Open Source Databases,” with topics of MySQL, MongoDB and other open source databases, including PostgreSQL, time series databases and RocksDB. Sessions tracks include Developers, Operations and Business/Case Studies.

We’re looking forward to your submissions! We want proposals that cover the many aspects and current trends of using open source databases, including design practices, application development, performance optimization, HA and clustering, cloud, containers and new technologies, as well as new and …

One for the road…

The social events at Percona Live Europe provide the community with more time to catch up with old friends and make new contacts. The formal sessions provided lots of opportunities for exchanging notes, experiences and ideas. Lunches and coffee breaks proved to be busy too. Even so, what’s better than chilling out over a beer or two (we were in Dublin after all) and enjoying the city nightlife in good company?

Percona Live Europe made it easy for us to get together each evening.  A welcome reception (after tutorials) at Sinnott’s Pub in the heart of the City hosted a lively crowd. The Community Dinner at the Mercantile Bar, another lively city center hostelry, was a sell-out. While our closing reception was held at the conference venue, which had proven to be an excellent base. 

Many delegates took the chance to enjoy the best of Dublin’s hospitality late into the night. It’s …

Like every year, the a MySQL Community Reception will take place during Open World.

If  you are using or interested in learning more about MySQL? And if  you are attending Oracle OpenWorld and looking for an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas or experiences with MySQL users? Then join the MySQL team on Tuesday, October 3rd at Jillians to celebrate the dynamics and growth of the MySQL community!

Whether you are attending OpenWorld, a member of local MySQL user groups, a MySQL user in the Bay Area, or simply interested in MySQL technology, you’re all invited to Oracle’s MySQL Community Reception.

• Mingle with your peers and learn from real-world experiences.
• Talk to MySQL engineers face-to-face and get the first-hand information on the latest product development. …

OOW17 is just around the corner. And again this year the MySQL team is very proud to present you their work mostly on MySQL 8.0 but also on NDB and all Enterprise tools we have. This year, we will also focus on the place MySQL has in Oracle’s Cloud !

Of course MySQL’s Community is also present in the schedule with very interesting talks. The full schedule related to the MySQL sessions can be found here.

Let’s focus on the agenda for the event:

Sunday, October 1st Moscone South Room 160

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From September 25th to 27th 2017, the MySQL engineers and community team will be speaking at Percona Live Europe in Dublin.

MySQL is also part of the contributing sponsors.

For the conference, we tried to bring new faces to the Community. Usually, it’s always the same famous team leaders speaking at the conferences, this time, it’s not. A lot of key developers will present their own work. We have so much talented people in MySQL we want to present to our community.

Of course, once again we will focus our talks on MySQL 8.0. This is the list of sessions the MySQL Team will deliver:

Monday, Sep 25th

On Monday, I will deliver a tutorial with my friend …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day one and day two. Now that you can visualize what’s being offered, don’t forget to register.

If you want a discount code, feel free to email me at …

The ConFoo Team is pleased to announce the opening of its call for paper for its Montreal event.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, CooFoo will be focusing its 2018 Montreal edition on “Experiment & Learn”. Indeed, as Montreal is becoming one of the world emerging AI advanced research centers, disrupting the global innovation scene, we are particularly interested in gathering and exchanging with developers in the AI community.

If you live in Montreal you can be proud ambassadors of this innovative mindset that pervades the developers’ ecosystem. If you come from elsewhere you obviously have a passion for data learning, model development, and the various industries to apply your knowledge (healthcare, finance, automotive…)

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to share your experience with passionate developers. Whether in artificial intelligence or other …

MySQL is proud to announce that we are going to support and actively attend a very unique event BuzzConf in Australia. It’s hold on December 1-3, 2017 in Phoenix Park, AU.
BuzzConf is a family-friendly technology festival with a really unique atmosphere – all participants and presenters spend the weekend together in country Victoria, learning and playing with tech during the day and being entertained by live music all night!
Whether you want to give a talk, run a workshop, lead a kids track session, or entertain the masses during the festival, BuzzConf wants to hear from you!

The Call for Presenters runs until August 4, so there’s not long to get an idea in – but plenty of time to nut out all the final details should an idea from your community be selected for the program.
Find out what makes BuzzConf different at  …

The MySQL Community team will be supporting the following events during the summer and we will be present at some of them ! Please come to visit us ! Northeast PHP August 9-11, 2017, Charlottetown, PEI Canada   We are happy to invite you to Northeast PHP where MySQL Community team is having a booth. Please find David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager at MySQL booth in expo area. Dave also submitted a talk on “JSON, Replication, and database programming” which we hope will be accepted. Please watch the conference agenda for further updates.   We are looking forward to talking to you there! More information / registration: http://2017.northeastphp.org/ UbuCon LA  Lima, Peru, August 18-19, 2017   MySQL Community team is supporting this event as …

Time is running out to submit a talk for OpenWorld 2017 that will table place on October 1–5, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.  If you are looking for inspiration on what talk to submit, we encourage you to submit a case study.  We would love to hear how you are using MySQL as part of your data platform, and your experiences in upgrading to InnoDB Cluster with MySQL 5.7.  Talks on how you are testing MySQL 8.0 are also welcome

The call for papers will be open until May 1st 2017.  Please submit now!