I don’t think this was widely publicized, but the Call for Proposals for the MySQL (and beyond) conference was extended a few days. It’ll be open through November 3rd.
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Recently I gave a few public presentations and started to convert
the slides for making them available online. Here's the first
bunch with slides from two conferences which were held in
October, the International PHP Conference in Germany and PHP
Barcelona in Spain. As always: The spoken word is missing on the
slides ...
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You have about 14 more hours to submit session proposals to the O’Reilly MySQL conference, which is soliciting sessions about all open-source databases: PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Riak, Hadoop, Firebird, you name it. The last-minute proposals are coming fast and furious, as usual, and we have a great selection to choose from, but we need more!
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I wish I could go to PGWest this year. A lot of great work has been done on PostgreSQL in the last year and a half. There’s a new release with built-in replication, and there are in-place upgrades. That solves two of what I think are its three biggest shortcomings in many large-scale database deployments. (Lack of index-only queries is the third shortcoming.)
PGWest is the first major conference about Postgres since the 9.0 release, so all the cool stuff is happening there. I encourage MySQL users to go to it as well — there is a lot to learn from PostgreSQL. Just remember to be polite and don’t start, encourage, or tolerate any sniping between MySQL and Postgres fans.
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[Read more]I’ve written before about how to get accepted to the conference. We want great technical submissions in a broad variety of topics, for databases well beyond MySQL. I wanted to post a quick list of things that come to my mind as good ways to get voted down or rejected out of hand. In general, I can put it this way: you are being peer-reviewed by presenters and industry experts. You need to write your proposal for the committee as well as for attendees. Lightly edited copy-and-paste from real examples:
In this tutorial, ______ will teach a condensed version of his standard commercial training workshop, a $1,500 value.
THIS IS A MUST ATTEND FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO BECOME ______ EXPERTS.
Sometimes being a committee member is fun. My all-time personal favorite, from the 2010 conference:
NETWORKING FOR TECHIES — BUILDING BUSINESS CONTACTS AT IT …
[Read more]My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables.
WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and we are very happy to be participating.
In addition to Aleksandr's talks, we will also be offering our training courses. You can find out more from the conference website (they will be publishing more information in the next two days).
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[Read more]I have my schedule pretty busy during a trip to Russia this year. In addition to giving a master class and Sphinx Conference I'm going to speak at HighLoad++. I'll also have a user meeting presentations in Samara on October 17 and Minsk on October 22 This looks like it is going to be a lot of fun …
[Read more]Some people seem unclear about whether there will be a 2011 MySQL conference from O’Reilly. There most definitely will be, and the CfP is open. We are looking for speakers. I’m on the speaker selection committee again this year for the Nth time, and my advice from past years still stands. This year we’re also looking for a greater diversity of database products, including other relational databases, NoSQL databases, and ancillary technologies.
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[Read more]Exactly one month from today, OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010 will begin its technical content (we will have a social event on Friday evening, Oct. 15th, starting no earlier than 6 pm). Have you registered yet? It's 100% free! Make sure to get your flight before next week or the costs will go up, as it is generally more expensive to book a flight within 21 days of your trip. Also do not forget to book your hotel, we have a good rate of $149 per night for single or double occupancy....click here for details.
DISCLAIMER: This post contains no technical MySQL content however it is good news for the MySQL Community.
MySQL content will be included for the first time with the LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Usergroups Council) Oracle tour that is being organized in conjunction with OTN (Oracle Technology Network).
I have no idea what MySQL user communities are in South America however if you live in any of the following cities, please feel free to contact me. I am happy to have additional discussion regarding MySQL or help in some way if there is interest in any cities.
This seven country tour includes: