I just stumbled over Sebastian's blog entry:
The second Free and Open Source Conference "FrOSCon" takes place on August, 25th and 26th 2007 in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, Germany. The conference is once again hosted by the faculty of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the student body and the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin.
I attended FrOSCon last year and found it a very pleasant conference to be …
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The second Free and Open Source Conference "FrOSCon" takes place
on August, 25th and 26th 2007 in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn,
Germany. The conference is once again hosted by
the faculty of computer science of the University of
Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the
student body and the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin.
In a Call for Papers, the organizers ask for
submission of contributions. A broad variety of topics concerning
free and open source software is desired.
Contributions can be submitted in …
FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting will again take place in Brussels, Belgium on February, 24th & 25th. I went there last year and really had a great time. This year, I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk, which has been accepted! I've just been informed that the lightning talk schedule is now published. My talk "What's new at MySQL AB" will be on Saturday, at 17:00. I look forward to being there!
I just noticed that the schedules for the Sessions and Tutorials of our upcoming MySQL Conference &
Expo (which takes place on April 23rd-26th in Santa Clara,
California) is now online. The program looks very promising and I
am particularly excited that some of the sessions that I have
helped to arrange made it into the final program:
It is really noticable that the summer is over now. While it was quite silent during the past few months, the last quarter of the year will be packed with conferences and events again.
And we will contribute our share to it, too: in addition to sending speakers to various upcoming events, MySQL will also host two European MySQL User conferences next week. The MySQL Northern Europe Customer Conference will take place in London (UK), on Tuesday, October 17th 2006. Two days later, the MySQL Central Europe Customer Conference will be held in Munich (Germany) on Thursday, October 19th 2006. Both are one-day events, with two tracks of talks in parallel. The sessions will be held by both MySQL employees as well as customers, talking about their experiences in using MySQL …
[Read more]It is really noticable that the summer is over now. While it was quite silent during the past few months, the last quarter of the year will be packed with conferences and events again.
And we will contribute our share to it, too: in addition to sending speakers to various upcoming events, MySQL will also host two European MySQL User conferences next week. The MySQL Northern Europe Customer Conference will take place in London (UK), on Tuesday, October 17th 2006. Two days later, the MySQL Central Europe Customer Conference will be held in Munich (Germany) on Thursday, October 19th 2006. Both are one-day events, with two tracks of talks in parallel. The sessions will be held by both MySQL employees as well as customers, talking about their experiences in using MySQL …
[Read more]On September 18th-21st, the second EuroOSCON will take place in Brussels, Belgium. I probably won't make it to this year's conference, but I really enjoyed the event in Amsterdam last year.
The session grid contains a number of talks related to MySQL:
In addition to our main MySQL Users Conference that took place in April, there will also be two small MySQL Conferences in Europe later this year. There will be presentations about our products and roadmaps as well as sessions about best practices and first-hand customer experiences. You will also get a chance to meet and talk with many MySQLers and share your thoughts and experiences. The conferences will take place in London, UK (Tuesday, October 17th) and in Munich, Germany (Thursday, October 19th). The conference program looks very interesting and there is an early bird discount, if you register before August 31st. So don't hesitate to register soon!
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.
This Wednesday I participated on a panel discussion about
"Open Source in the Enterprise - Chances and
Risks" at the JAX 2006 conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. It
was a lively discussion, with good comments and questions from
the audience.
One thing I found noteworthy is that many people still seem to be
worried about using OSS when it comes to licensing and legal
questions. In fact, these concerns seem to be more dominant than
preoccupations about the technical capabilities of OSS software
itself. Some claimed that they find OSS licenses confusing and do
not feel certain if their usage of OSS actually complied to the
licenses. I was thankful that we had Till Kreutzer from the
ifrOSS on the
panel as well, who (in my opinion) did a good job in dispelling a
few myths …