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Next month I will be in the US East Coast, to attend the Open SQL Camp. Since I will arrive a few days earlier, I will also attend a few meetups on the way from Boston to Charlottesville. |
Oct
23
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23
2008
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OK. I was exceedingly optimistic, but not too much. I said that we may get enough submissions by the end of the regular CfP, and I was almost right. At midnight of October 22nd, we got 284 submissions, which is about 100 proposals more than last year (before extending), but not as much as we got after the extension. Well done, MySQL Community! But since we are hard to please, we want to have at least the same number of proposals that we had last year (I am sure we'll get more!), and so we are extending for two weeks. You have time until November 5th to submit a … |
Oct
21
2008
I think Giuseppe (the man with too many blogs!) was a little too optimistic in his last post… the MySQL Conference Call for Participation has received an amazing amount of proposals, but not enough by our standards.
I personally believe there should be a 1:3 accepted-rejected ratio. Currently, its not there yet. Why do I like such high ratios? It means that there are actually so many good talks, and we (the voting committee) pick the best of the best, to give attendees the most mileage for their time and money. Or am I too harsh?
Anyway, the word on the street is that we will extend the Call for Participation, mostly because it is the right thing to do, and lots of people expect it. Expect an official announcement to go out soon about this. But …
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Oct
20
2008
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On Saturday, October 25th, I will be speaking at a Linux Day event in Sassari, about 200 Km from my hometown. The Linux Day is a global event in Italy. At a given date, all participating towns host a Linux gathering, which could be a conference, a workshop, an install fest, or all of the above. I am speaking at the Linux Day in Sassari, on the subject of Open Source in the enterprise. Theory and practice. It will be a talk on what enterprises should do with open source, to improve individual and team work, and what individuals can do to work better in an open enterprise. |
Oct
17
2008
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Still 5 days until the end of the call for participation. Hurry up! The deadline is October 22, 2008. Yes. I know what you are thinking. Every year it's hurry hurry and then they extend at the last minute. Probably so. Or maybe not. After my last reminder, the number and the quality of submissions has improved. And we may manage to get what we want without extensions. If that happens, your only chance for a podium is to submit before October 22nd. |
If we get enough good submissions by them, we won't extend. Meaning that if you were counting on an extension to send your proposal, it may be too late.
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Oct
16
2008
Going to LCA? We have two days of glory for what is known as The Open Source Databases MiniConf. We have a webpage on the wiki, the announcement went out a few days ago, and the call for participation is open!
Tasmania is a fabulous place to be in January. 19-20 January 2009 is when the OSDB-MiniConf happens… topics on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby/JavaDB, Drizzle, CouchDB and many more are to be accepted.
What are you waiting for, submit a talk already!
Oct
15
2008
A MySQL Conference in Europe? Wrong: three MySQL Conferences in
Europe!
Yes, this is the plan for next week - 21st of October in Munich
and 23rd in London - and for mid November - 19th of November in
Paris.
Each venue will host a full day of presentations, news and
analysis on MySQL. You can have a look at the official web page for all the details, agenda
and registration.
The content can satisfy the appetite of a technical audience and
of more business-oriented IT managers at the same time. We will
have sessions on performance, on scalability solutions and on
Proxy, with hands-on the servers, difference parameters and
tools. IT managers will probably find interesting a renewed set
of HA solutions and some renewed views on the infrastructures
used to power the Web.
Robin Schumacher, Director of …
Oct
07
2008
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The Open SQL Camp will take place in Charlottesville, VA, USA, on November 14, 15, and 16. Attendees are requested to register in the event's Wiki, and if you are interested in presenting something, there is a mailing list to discuss your intended topics. |
I have proposed a topic about the MySQL community driven replication monitoring project, …
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Oct
06
2008
What started as some chat about having a one-day event, after
MyGOSSCon, on the 26th of September 2008, about
open source, has turned into a full-blown conference, to be
pulled off in about a month, affectionately known as foss.my. Its being held at
APIIT from November 8-9 2008, and is touted to be the most
technical conference of its kind in South East Asia.
We want people to participate as speakers, delegates, sponsors, or volunteers. This is a grassroots event, and its purely non-commercial - no vendor talks, or marketing gimmicks are permitted. Largely the motto is very foss.in/linux.conf.au-ish - both community events I truly enjoy going to, and wouldn’t miss for the world.
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Oct
05
2008
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is making news once more. Its projected data inflow of 30 Terabyte per night has caught to the imagination of slashdot readers. Why is this interesting? Because it was not news to me. |
You may recall that I was enthusiast about a Astronomy, Petabytes, and MySQL at the MySQL
Users Conference 2008, and with reason. The engineers at Stanford
have a plan of storing petabytes of data into a cluster of MySQL
databases.
The technical …