It’s that time of year again, and we’ve just had the presentations of the MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live. A more fulsome blog post will be written for the Community Blog in the next few days about the worthy winners. Meanwhile, though, here’s a summary.

Committee Co-Secretaries Emily Slocombe of Square, and Agustin Gallego of Percona presented these annual community nominated awards today. In four categories, the awards went to:

• Community Contributor of the Year: Weixiang Zhai
• Community Contributor of the Year: Valerii Kravchuk

Both of these awards were made for bug identification and submission. Valerii was represented by Vicențiu Ciorbaru of MariaDB Foundation who accepted the award on his behalf.

• The Application of the Year award was mad to Dbdeployer, for its incredible usefulness to the …

As one decompresses from the active month that April brings to the MySQL ecosystem, its worth noting that I received a MySQL Community Award – Community Contributor of the Year 2014 award at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014 in Santa Clara. I was extremely happy and thankful to receive such an award and I still am. Thank you MySQL Community.

My reason for winning, now immortalised:

Colin’s list of service to the MySQL Community goes back almost 10 years. He was a community engineer starting in 2005, chaired some of the O’Reilly MySQL conferences, ran the MySQL projects for Google Summer of Code. As a partner and …