The MariaDB Foundation Board has been meeting monthly since
February and on Monday this week had the third meeting of the
year. Here is an update on a couple of things from the meeting.
We’re happy to announce that Booking.com has renewed their
support to the foundation. As a major corporate sponsor Booking.com has been offered
a seat on the Foundation board. Booking.com nominated Eric
Herman. Eric has a history with MySQL dating from 2004
where he joined MySQL working on the server and tools. In
2010, Eric joined Booking.com where he works on database scaling
challenges and BigData. As a community member, he has contributed
to the perl MySQL client driver, the perl interpreter, and other
Free Software. To represent community and industry
interests in line with the Foundation mission, Eric Herman has
joined the Board.
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