The UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) is an independent non-profit organisation of users of Oracle products in the UK, which organizes over 80 events per year all across the UK and Ireland. They have more that 15.000 members and were established over 25 years ago. Currently, they are in the final stretch of the preparations for their annual Technology & E-Business Conference, which will take place from November, 29th - December, 1st in Birmingham (UK).

For the first time, the conference will host a dedicated stream of presentations related to MySQL, which is scheduled for Wednesday (Dec. 1st). Targeted at database administrators, developers as well as users new to MySQL, there will be presentations from well-known speakers and participants of the MySQL community as well …

On Friday, October 15th, the third OpenSQLCamp in North America will start at 6pm with a social event and then continue with more technical stuff over the week end.
Compared to the overcrowded Oracle Open World with its 45,000 attendees, this event may look like a desert. But the quality of the attendance will more than compensate for the missing thousands.
The event will be held with unconference style. There is a list of sessions, where I have proposed two topics, one for which I would like to see someone stepping up and help defining the topic …

This week I was one of the presenters at the first Surge Scalability Conference in Baltimore. An event that focused not just on one technology but on what essential tools, technologies and practices system architects need to know about for successfully scaling web applications.

While MySQL is an important product in many environments, it is only one component for a successful technology stack and for many organizations is one of several products that manage your data.

My presentation was on the common MySQL scalability mistakes and how to avoid them. This is a problem/solution approach and is a companion talk with Successful MySQL Scalability which describes design for successfully scalability …

This miniconf aims to cover many of the current methods of data storage and retrieval and attempt to bring order to the universe. We’re aiming to cover what various systems do, what the latest developments are and what you should use for various applications.

We aim for talks from developers of and developers using the software in question.

Aiming for some combination of: PostgreSQL, Drizzle, MySQL, XFS, ext[34], Swift (open source cloud storage, part of OpenStack), memcached, TokyoCabinet, TDB/CTDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase….. and more!

Call for Papers open NOW (Until 22nd October).

OSSCube’s internationally renowned team of MySQL Experts - Sonali Minocha and Rakesh Kumar, lead a successful workshop on setting up MySQL High Availability for your MySQL Database servers. Scheduled on the second day of the conference, September 20th, the workshop was jam packed with enthusiastic participants.

Sonali, Asia’s first MySQL certified DBA and an internationally renowned MySQL expert, …

Thank you Chennai, for making OSI Days 2010 one of the most memorable events we have been a part of. The three days were a blend of pure open source awesomeness with loads of fun along with serious discussions focusing on technology and how it can be deployed to solve real business problems.

As the Organizing Partner of the conference, we were really concerned about the quality of the sessions at the conference. We had done the first part correct - bring together a stellar team of internationally renowned speakers (something we really had to sweat for!). The other part was to ensure that the participants are able to get the best out of the sessions. We hit some glitches, but all-in-all we did a decent job. Lessons have been learned, next edition will be grander and more accessible than this one.

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Thank you Chennai, for making OSI Days 2010 one of the most memorable events we have been a part of. The three days were a blend of pure open source awesomeness with loads of fun along with serious discussions focusing on technology and how it can be deployed to solve real business problems.

As the Organizing Partner of the conference, we were really concerned about the quality of the sessions at the conference. We had done the first part correct - bring together a stellar team of internationally renowned speakers (something we really had to sweat for!). The other part was to ensure that the participants are able to get the best out of the sessions. We hit some glitches, but all-in-all we did a decent job. Lessons have been learned, next edition will be grander and more accessible than this one.

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Team OSSCube could not feel prouder than what we felt at the sight of the thorngs and hordes assembled right on time for registrations to start. So much so that in the initial enthusiasm to register and participate at the conference, all FOSS evangelists created huge queues and pools near the registration desk. The patience and the enthusiasm shared by the community was immense (We love you!). The conference started with a slight delay of the schedule as the team channelised the masses inside the halls and prepared the show for the inauguration.

The Minister-in-Charge, Department of IT (Govt of West Bengal) - Dr. Debesh Das, inaugrated the conference with a speech on the FOSS scenario in India and the relevance of open source to all its stakeholders and how new inroads are eing made by the community …

Team OSSCube could not feel prouder than what we felt at the sight of the thorngs and hordes assembled right on time for registrations to start. So much so that in the initial enthusiasm to register and participate at the conference, all FOSS evangelists created huge queues and pools near the registration desk. The patience and the enthusiasm shared by the community was immense (We love you!). The conference started with a slight delay of the schedule as the team channelised the masses inside the halls and prepared the show for the inauguration.

The Minister-in-Charge, Department of IT (Govt of West Bengal) - Dr. Debesh Das, inaugrated the conference with a speech on the FOSS scenario in India and the relevance of open source to all its stakeholders and how new inroads are eing made by the …

OSI Days 2010 is the 7th edition of the conference series that started as LinuxAsia 2004. The conference carries the legacy of being the premium confluence of the open source community and the industry in Asia, and has successfully been a platform for the promotion and growth of open source tools and technologies in India.

As the Organising Partner, OSSCube has led from the front, building the technical sessions and workshops for PHP, Drupal and Open Source Databases tracks at the conference. In addition to the strategic role played by OSSCube as the organising partners of the conference, OSSCube is also organising workshops on setting up and tuning MySQL …