Oracle Open World has a MySQL track this year and you can submit session proposal and vote on proposed sessions until June 19th!1 Please vote to help determine what you will see at OOW.

Before the regular OOW sessions, on Sunday October 2nd, MySQL will have two simultaneous tracks for Community Sunday. Session speakers are also needed and we do have two rooms to fill. So dust off that presentation idea you have been working on and get it polished. If you would like to present at on Sunday, please let me know and I will pass on the information to the MySQL Community Sunday Organizers.

And we will have a MySQL booth in the USer Group Area for you to drop[ in and talk about MySQL. And we need …

Dolphin shirts available at an event near you!

The New MySQL Dolphin shirts have arrived and you can get yours at upcoming events where the MySQL Community Team will be appearing! Come meet Keith Larson at Southeast LinuxFest starting June 10th or Dave Stokes at the Community Leadership Summit July 23rd. These are high quality t-shirts in a majestic gray tone featuring with Sakila the dolphin. These were highly sought after at an April conference but most of them went to the MySQL Engineering Teams. But now our second batch has arrived.

Not going to either of those show? Then keep watching Planet.MySQL.Com for future opportunities to …

Every so often, the members of the MySQL Community Team look back at the previous business year to help plan for events for the next business year. Last year Giuseppe, Lenz, and I visited Boston, San Francisco, Brussels, Dubai, Sydney, Los Angeles, Wellington, Lisbon, Prishtina, Madrid, Birmingham, Columbia, Santa Clara, Nuremberg, Orlando, and other cities. This includes shows like the Open DBA Camp, Collaborate, FOSDEM, UKOUG, POSSCON, SCaLE, DOAG, SAPO CodeBits, and several local user groups. We travel so much to spread the word about MySQL and to find out from you how to make MySQL better.

We continuously search for events but we may have missed yours. If you have an event coming up on the calendar, please drop me a line just to make sure it gets on our list. You can expect to find us at events like Oracle Open World, OSCON, and the Open Source Business Conference. Or at the San Francisco MySQL Users Group or MySQL SIG of the Dallas …