I recently posted about how we, MySQL Community Managers, are trying to reach out more to the MySQL User groups and the MySQL Community.
The room has been quiet to far but it is a new room. You can find us in #MySQL_Community & #MySQL_user_groups on freenode.
A few common issues have come out that I have heard before. We as a community can work to address these concerns.

• List of user groups
• Few volunteers
• Difficulty in getting good legit speakers
• Low attendance
• Location for meetings

Some of these concerns have been addressed by the community in the past. https://wikis.oracle.com/display/mysql/How+to+run+a+user+group …

As MySQL Community Managers, Dave an myself are always looking for ways to gather feedback on MySQL. 
We want to make ourselves available to you. The current plan is the last Monday of every month Dave and Myself will be on #freenode and join a chat room called MySQL_user_groups. 
We will also try to be available as much as possible in a chat room called MySQL_Community.
You can join us and ask questions or just let us know your opinions. 
We want to hear about everything from your best presentation topics, to the worst. What is the biggest struggle you find with user groups ? How could Oracle help? 

Day three of the User Group Leadership Summit is here and MySQL has continued to have a valid presence from the community as well as the Oracle Team.

George Trujillo introduced MySQL for the Oracle DBA to a very attentive audience.
Ronald Bradford gave a great presentation on why people should use MySQL.
Sheeri Cabral talked on the MySQL Community and user groups. Members of Oracle user groups showed great interest in the MySQL User groups.


So how can I summarize the summit in one line:
Oracle DBA user group members are interested in MySQL and the community!

At the IOUC leaders’ summit in San Francisco this week, key leaders from Oracle, Java and MySQL user groups world wide have been meeting. This has included the key Oracle MySQL resources from the community, marketing and product teams. The Java User Groups and MySQL User Groups have been well represented and there has been very welcoming discussion with the IOUC about how we can become active within the Oracle Community.

There has been key discussions of upcoming and proposed MySQL events including the great outreach by the Oracle MySQL team with existing Open Source conferences this year including Scale, FOSDEM and South East Linuxfest just to name a few.

You can see the upcoming events at …

I suppose the true birthdate could be debated, but from the *Community* perspective, it can be either the 14 or 11 year birthdate for MySQL!

*Unless* of course you are Monty or David, or one of the internal testers/users, for which May 95 may hold slightly more significance

14 Years ago: The Windows [alpha] was released January 8, 1998.

11 Years ago: The first GA version of 3.23 was released in January 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Product_history

Note Monty and David first began working on MySQL in 1994, and the first internal release occurred on May 23, 1995. But, since that was all internal, January works for me.

Happy Birthday MySQL!

Hello,

We are looking for users of the MySQL Community Edition 5.5 and/or users who tested some of MySQL 5.6  (via the labs.mysql.com).

Have you tested the MySQL utilities ?

Have you tested Cluster ?

What replication topologies do you prefer?

We want to know your thoughts on features and how it has helped you.  Your feedback helps drive the future! Don't be shy ! Please contact me with your feedback.



keith larson
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The last day of #OOW is here and MySQL events continue. Even after the big Sting concert last night. I am now sitting in a MySQL Crash Course talk given by Alexander Nozdrin and Dmitry Lenev. The room is packed (~100) ! A poll of the room  showed that the majority here are all new to MySQL. Very encouraging to see the MySQL community growing !

So Sunday & Monday have been great! I was glad to be able to visit and talk with so many people from the MySQL community. While talking with the community, we often directed people to Sheeri's QR tag, which directed them to http://kimtag.com/MySQL. ( She posted about this here. ) This simple page is a great way to get a lot of resources in front of people with very few clicks. I was curious why mysql.com doesn't have something similar so we can help out. So, we made one.
So we took a quick look around and gathered some quick links for you. It is a simple list of resources that can be used to help direct people to top content about MySQL. Hopefully, you all find this page as useful as the QR tag was so far at OOW. You can find the new page here: …

Another MySQL Developer Day is available. I will be joining the MySQL team in Minneapolis Thursday, November 17, 2011.

You can register here.

Many thanks to all of those from MySQL Community who attended the Washington DC Developer day. We had great questions from a full room of community users and we look forward to any feedback that you might have.
I look forward to the next one !