In the wake of Meetup.com changing their sponsorship agreements, Technocation, Inc., an international not-for-profit group, has set up a fund for user group sponsorships. You can use the button below to donate any amount of money in US funds via PayPal:

(all monies sent through that button will be earmarked as a directed donation to the “User Group Fund”. In the interest of not cluttering up this blog post with a Donate button for each currency, you can use PayPal to send funds in *any* currency to “donate@technocation.org”. Just be sure to specify if you want the money to go to specifically to the User Group Fund.*)

Note that meetup.com’s fees are $144 per year ($12 per month).

Four years ago, MySQL and Meetup.com entered into an agreement. I have no idea of the details of this sponsorship, though from reading in between the lines, I believe the sponsorship was an in-kind sponsorship — that is, …

At the January 2009 Boston User Group I presented a session on the new partitioning feature in MySQL 5.1. I go through how to define partitions, how partitioning makes queries faster, the different types of partitioning and when to use each type, and the restrictions and limitations of partitioning.

The sildes are available at http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/2009_01_Partitioning.pdf. The 380.6 Mb .mov movie (1 hr 16 min) can be played directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/671/play or downloaded at http://technocation.org/node/671/download.

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"The State of" Lightning talks, moderated by Josh Berkus, is always a great highlight.
OSCon 2008's speakers and projects included:

• Alan Kasindorf: Memcached
  
• Glynn Foster: OpenSolaris
  
• OSI: Danese Cooper
  
• MySQL: Monty Widenius
  
• PostgreSQL: Bruce Momjian
  
• GNOME: Dave Neary
  
• Gentoo: Donnie Berkholz
  
• OpenOffice.org: Louis Suarez-Potts
  
• Jabber: Peter Saint-Andre
  
• Mozdev: Brian King
  
• OpenID: Scott Kveton
  
• Open Scrum: James Dixon
  
• Talking Book Project: Cliff Schmidt
  

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"The State of" Lightning talks, moderated by Josh Berkus, is always a great highlight.
OSCon 2008's speakers and projects included:

• Brian Aker: Memcached
  
• Glynn Foster: OpenSolaris
  
• OSI: Danese Cooper
  
• MySQL: Monty Widenius
  
• PostgreSQL: Bruce Momjian
  
• GNOME: Dave Neary
  
• Gentoo: Donnie Berkholz
  
• OpenOffice.org: Louis Suarez-Potts
  
• Jabber: Peter Saint-Andre
  
• Mozdev: Brian King
  
• OpenID: Scott Kveton
  
• Open Scrum: James Dixon
  
• Talking Book Project: Cliff Schmidt
  

Due to an equipment malfunction, I was able to get all the way through the Open Office lightning talk, but did not get the Gnome lightning talk. Please feel free to let me know about any others that did not make the video cut (or ones that …

Firstly, I finally realized who Jonathan Schwartz reminds me of:

That's right, comedian and magician Penn Jillette.

Schwartz started by saying, "enough of this free software stuff!" It got lots of laughs. He started to talk about Sun's agenda, and mentioned that MySQL and Sun had similar values, as well as similar dysfunctions as well -- particularly that each engineer has his/her own opinion.

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Patrick Galbraith, former MySQL employee who helped write replication, came to the November 2007 Boston MySQL User Group and did a fantastic presentation on replication, including showing how to set up replication and walking us through the steps in real-time, setting up an example server.

Smaller, 320x240, 293M WMV file for download

References mentioned in the video:
Brian Aker's DBIx::Password

Giuseppe Maxia's article about federated tables -- I think that's the right one, feel free to comment if it's not.

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Mehlam Shakir, CTO of RippleTech, discusses a practical approach for auditing MySQL databases to meet security and compliance regulations. Hear real-world cases and see a live demonstration of how RippleTech?s Informant solution compliments MySQL by adding a security layer without any performance impact.

For more information on RippleTech?s INFORMANT, visit http://www.rippletech.com/

I have to say, I was a bit worried this would be a typical vendor presentation where every other word is marketing speak for how great the product is. It actually just ended up being ?here?s how Informant works, and here?s how auditing, security and compliance needs can be met,? presented in a way that?s useful and valuable to anyone who is interested in auditing or security. …

http://tinyurl.com/2qmusm

Need I say more? Go download the slides, video and audio from the 2007 MySQL Users Conference & Expo. I have no plans to take anything down, so please download wisely, and take only what you need. If there’s demand, I can make higher-quality versions available. I can also burn DVD’s of the content if that’s desired.

Enjoy!