Frappr is an interesting way of showing the geographic locations of people that share a common interest. It's based on Google Maps and of course there is MySQL Users Group, too!
Mar
25
2006
Mar
16
2006
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 …
Mar
07
2006
The first Hamburg MySQL User Group meeting was held yesterday
evening. It took place at 19:00 in a chinese restaurant named
Ni Hao - they had
a separate room for us that also provided a video projector. The
location was suggested by Jens Bollmann, thanks a lot for the
hint! We had a pretty good lineup from the MySQL side: Jens
Bollmann (Consulting), Jan Kneschke (MySQL Network Development), Kai Voigt
(Training/Consulting), Ulf Wendel (MaxDB) and myself (Community) were
present. We had a total of 35 people attending.
I started the meeting with introducing myself and the community
relations team and giving a short presentation about MySQL (the
company - some facts and figures). I then asked everbody to
shortly introduce himself to the …
Mar
02
2006
This is just remind you that the first Hamburg MySQL User Group meeting will take place on Monday, 6th of March, 19:00. For more details please see my initial announcement and join our mailing list!
Currently, we have about 30 people that will attend. I will give a short general presentation about MySQL (the company), later Kai will give a presentation on MySQL Cluster.
If you'd like to join us, please register via meetup.com or OpenBC. Looking forward to meeting you!