As an update to the previous announcement from Feb 27, 2014 we would like to update you on the conferences which MySQL Community team is supporting with an attendance of MySQL technical staff and sometimes with Java, Oracle VM and Oracle Linux experts as well. You are invited to meet our engineers at any of the event below.  

EMEA 

• NEW! Open Source Days 2014, Bielsko, Poland, March 28-30, 2014
  • Our local MySQL colleague Marcin Szalowicz will attend this conference and represent MySQL there. Please come to hear his presentation on "MySQL Workbench …

On the road again - FOSSAsia

It has been a few busy months until now. I have moved from Italy to Thailand, and the move has been my first priority, keeping me from attending FOSDEM and interacting with social media. Now I start catching my breath, and looking around for new events to attend. But before I get into this, let’s make a few things clear:

• I am still working for Continuent. Actually, it’s because of my company flexibility that I could move to a different country (a different continent, 6 time zones away) without much trouble. Thanks, Continuent! (BTW: Continuent is hiring! )
• I am still involved with MySQL activities, events, and community matters. I just happen to be in a different time zone, where direct talk with people in Europe and …

The MySQL February Newsletter is available! Find out the latest news on MySQL products and MySQL Connect 2014, and read the technical tips written by MySQL experts at Oracle and in the community. Below are the highlights in this edition:

• Start Preparing for MySQL Connect 2014 Call for Papers
• New GA Release: MySQL for Visual Studio
• Blog: State of the UNION
• Blog: New MySQL Web Installer -- Have You Tried It Yet?
• Blog: MySQL Workbench: Frequent Crashes on Mac OS X? This Might Be The Fix
• Event: MySQL Seminars Are Coming to a City Near You

You can read it online or subscribe to it to receive the latest updates right in your inbox. Watch this …

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is just few weeks away, and of course, we are organizing the Annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup — one of your top favorite events of OpenWorld.

What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2013

When: Wed, 25-Sep-2013, 5:30pm

Where: Main Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 ( …

As an update to the previous announcement placed on May 15, 2013 I have the pleasure to announce additional events and conferences which MySQL Community Team supports! We are not only an event partner but we also secure the MySQL technical staff, at some events also Java, Oracle VM and Oracle Linux experts as well. Please come to any of the events below and talk to our staff about the latest news Oracle supported technologies! You can find us at:

• PHP UnConference, Hamburg, Germany, September 21-22, 2013
  • There is no schedule set for such events as UnConference. This event is mostly for PHP experts and engineers and the whole schedule is done usually on the place. MySQL is presented!
    
  • Tickets are available for purchasing …

MySQL team has recently attended several conferences and events in EMEA. At some cases we have managed only talks at some events we run a booth too, for the list of events we have been presented so far see below. For the upcoming shows we are going to be presented, please see our Wikis page.

• NoSQL Search Roadshow in Copenhagen on Jun 13, 2013:
  
  • At this show the MySQL talk on "NoSQL & MySQL" given by Ted Wenmark got more than 50% of the total 80-90 attendees. Ted got good response to the presentation, several attendees wanted to get in contact with him and wanted his slides (can be downloaded from Slideshare).
    One very interesting …

DrupalCamp Conference is hold in Göteborg, Sweden on May 25, 2013.

MySQL is part of this show and I would like to invite you to our session on "Scalability and Availability with MySQL Replication" given by Sven Sandberg on Saturday-May 25, 2013 @ 13:45-14:25!

So, if you are close to Göteborg or attending this event, do not forget to come to listen Sven's talk!

I would like to invite everyone who is around Trondheim, Norway to the "MySQL mini-seminar" taking place on June 19, 2013 in Oracle office. Do not miss this great opportunity to meet great MySQL engineers who are looking forward to meeting you and talking about MySQL!!!

Please see the official invitation in English and Norwegian below.

Invitation to MySQL mini-seminar

Many people are unaware that a great number of the MySQL developers are located in Trondheim, Norway, and that we have a lot of competence we would love to share.

We therefore invite anyone in Trondheim who's interested in MySQL to a mini-seminar located the Oracle's offices on Lade, June 19 at 3 pm.

The agenda will be:

• Presentation: MySQL Query Optimizer: an overview, by Jørgen Løland, MySQL Optimizer team
• Q&A, discussions
• Suggestions for presentations on …

SkySQL & Monty Program’s MariaDB Team coming to a city near you!

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