On June 24th/25th, the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany. I have submitted two talks (in english), which both got accepted: "MySQL Administration: Backup and Security Strategies on Linux" and "The MySQL Business Model: Where and how we thrive". The sessions will take place on Saturday, but I will be around on Sunday, too. In addition to my sessions, there will be two more MySQL-related talks: "MySQL Cluster: an Introduction - A journey into High Availability" by Geert Vanderkelen (one of our MySQL Cluster Support experts) and "Pivot …
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Today I uploaded a batch of pictures into my gallery and I also re-arranged a number of albums into a separate Conferences and Events collection. The latest additions in there (yes, some should have been uploaded some time ago already!):
- EuroOSCON 2005 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Open Source Database Conference 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany
- FOSDEM 2006 Conference in Brussels, Belgium
- MySQL Developer Meeting 2006 in Sorrento, Italy …
Last night I returned home from our internal MySQL Developer
Meeting in Sorrento, Italy. The trip again was uneventful
(something I certainly don't mind) and I used it to catch up with
email and other work that I could not take care of while being at
the conference.
The event was very well organized (kudos to Carol and the rest of
the team!) and I enjoyed meeting old and new colleagues. It was
nice being able to discuss stuff from face to face and hearing
about what's cooking at the various other parts of the company in
more detail. Too bad that we sometimes had so many tracks in
parallel - it was difficult at times to decide which session to
attend without fearing to miss something else. I gave a
presentation about SUSE Linux (why it's the best Linux distro to
use) and how our developers can help to foster our user
community.
On Monday evening, we arranged a small meeting with local
community users, some of them …
I am excited to announce that the phpMyAdmin project
confirmed to be present at the DotOrg Pavilion of our MySQL Users Conference
in Santa Clara next month. Thanks a lot to Marc Delisle for the
quick reply and arrangement of a representative. One more good
addition to the excellent program we've already lined up!
By the way, we still have some open slots to give away for
interested projects! So if you're a developer or member of an
Open Source project that utilizes MySQL, here's your chance to
show off your work to a very special audience. The exhibition will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday,
but we'll provide each project with one free conference pass that
will entitle you to …
I finally managed to hook into our wireless LAN here at our conference hotel. The flight from Hamburg to Naples via Munich was uneventful, I met Jan at Hamburg airport and we bumped into a whole bunch of MySQLers at the Munich airport already. From Naples airport it was another exciting hour to Sorrento in a small bus - I completely forgot that Italians have a slightly different driving style than us germans
I am looking forward to the meeting which officially starts tomorrow. I will be giving a presentation about the MySQL Community work and hope to encourage some more of our developers to become more active in there...
I'm pretty excited about this event, and I'm really disappointed
that I'm not going to be able to go. :(
http://mysqluc.com/
Tim, I really will meet you in person one of these days...
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
The Call for Papers ends on March 15th - so you better hurry if you want to give a presentation there! I proposed two MySQL-related talks and also asked some other colleagues to file a few submissions. There is enough stuff happening here to talk about
By the way, their registration frontend is very slick - it's called pentabarf (which I personally think is a weird name) and is powered by Ruby on Rails.
Next week, the MySQL Development Team (around 100 people) will meet for our internal annual development conference in Sorrento, Italy (between Naples and Salerno).
On Tuesday evening (19:30), we would like to meetup with local MySQL users and affiliated OSS developers to chat about MySQL and OSS and go out for dinner together. So if you are located close to Sorrento, please get in touch with us at community at mysql.com for further details! Looking forward to meet you there - I will be attending the conference until Wednesday.
I had an exciting weekend at the FOSDEM Conference in Brussels. Initially I
planned on writing a few blog entries while at the event (while
memory was still fresh), but the Internet access there was very
flaky and it was almost impossible to get a working wireless
connection. So here is my (slighly belated) writeup.
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