This year's Systems trade fair will take place from October 21st-24th in Munich, Germany. Sun will be present there with a stand in the exhibition area (Hall B2, Stand 329) and we also sponsor a conference themed "Perspective Open Source" that will provide half-day sessions (in German) about opensource-related topics throughout the week.
Some highlights of what we'll present on our stand:
Tomorrow morning I am presenting a session, Startup Scalability
Strategies, at Startonomics, a conference being organized by
Dave McClure
and Deal
Maker Media. The sessions will be streamed live using
UStream. Check the
Startonomics website at http://startonomics.com for more
details.
Also check out my guest blog post titled How Important Is Scalability written for
Startonomics blog.
I have some ideas already.
The call for participation for the MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2009 has been open for a month, and it will last for a few weeks more.
The CfP is open until October 22nd, 2008. The theme for the conference is Innovation Everywhere. If you have something innovative in mind and want to submit a proposal, hurry up!
Before you submit, make sure you read the guidelines. That will help you making a better proposal, with more chances of being accepted.
It is no secret that I am the Program Chair for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009, and am truly excited about it (big shoes to fill in from Jay). I expect it to be a great conference, with over 2,000 attendees and lots and lots of great talks. The paper submissions have been coming through, the excellent voters have been voting, and the progress is impressive. Its a great learning experience.
Now, I’m excited to tell you that I’m also going to organise the Open Source Databases MiniConf at linux.conf.au 2009. Its going to be in Hobart, Tasmania, in January 2009, and again, I’m excited. Read the …
[Read more]Greetings from the University of Latvia in Riga, where the local activities related to Software Freedom Day 2008 are in full swing! We've just finished the introductionary talk "Software freedom in Latvia" by Evijs Taube (LATA) and Leo Trukš
Greetings from the University of Latvia in Riga, where the local activities related to Software Freedom Day 2008 are in full swing! We've just finished the introductionary talk "Software freedom in Latvia" by Evijs Taube (LATA) and Leo Trukš
About 250 MySQL/Sun engineers are meeting in Riga, Latvia, for the annual internal MySQL Developers Meeting. 250 sounds like a large number. And a group picture is quite impressive.
Today is Software Freedom Day, which is organized at the local university, and includes talks by Mark Callaghan (Google), Mårten Mickos (MySQL), Domas Mituzas (Wikimedia Foundation).
The full program also mentions free beer, which is an irresistible combination!
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Mårten Mickos, SVP of Sun Database Group, will speak on MySQL as the platform for the web economy at the Software Freedom Day at the University of Latvia. The program of the event includes sessions on several open source matters, and a practical workshop on MySQL performance tuning. |
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During MySQL/Sun developers meeting in Riga, Latvia, we will celebrate the Software Freedom Day in cooperation with the University of Latvia and other organizations. One of the events taking place will be a workshop on MySQL optimization, held at the Linux Center computer lab at the University, under the supervision of Jay Pipes, one of the major experts in MySQL performance tuning. |
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The best performer at the workshop will be awarded a very appropriate prize. A copy of …
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