| There is a room dedicated to MySQL at FOSDEM 2012. (Thanks to @lefred for organizing). The CfP has received 37 submissions, but there will be time slots only for 12 to 15 talks. So now it's up to the community. If you want to attend a particular talk, you should vote for it. Like in previous years, the selection of the talks is public. You can see the list of the proposals, with the instructions, which I repeat here. You can vote either publicly, using Twitter, or privately, by sending an email. Each talk proposal will be referred by the number immediately after the title in this page. … |
Jan
02
2012
Apr
27
2011
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The Open
Database Camp 2011 is near. In 9 days, the welcome
party starts, and then the conference itself gets
going. If you are coming earlier than Friday, May 6th, you can either use public transportation or book a private seat with a volunteer in the car pooling page. Please help the organizers: post your arrival and departure dates and times, so we may be able to help you even outside the official conference days. About the conference itself, as everyone should know, it's a … |
Feb
08
2011
Monty Program Ab has signed up to be a sponsor at the Open Database Camp Sardinia 2011, and has donated the logo placement to the MariaDB project.
As a company we definitely plan to have a few employees attend and speak about all the things we’ve been working on in MariaDB. Will you be there? Go fill out the attendee list.
We’re all very excited at the first Open Database Camp (with a similar OpenSQLCamp format) and are especially excited for it being hosted in the beautiful island of Sardinia. See you there!
Feb
03
2011
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The Open Database Camp 2011 is shaping up nicely. The logistics is being defined and local and international volunteers are showing up for help. (Thanks, folks!) If you want to start booking, there is a list of hotels in the Accommodation page. And don't forget to sign up in the Attendees list. Local travel information will be released as soon as we finish cranking up the plan. Open Database camp is free, but we still have expenses to get the job done. We need both official sponsors and … |
Oct
09
2010
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 …
Oct
08
2010
OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010 happens 16-17 October 2010, at MIT in Boston (there is an evening social session on Friday the 15th as well). Its organised by MySQL community aficionado Sheeri Cabral, and by looking at the schedule and sponsors, it is going to be one of the most diverse OpenSQLCamp’s by far.
Monty Program is a sponsor, and I (Colin) will be participating on behalf of Monty Program to bring some information about what’s new from the Istanbul company meeting. More of the company certainly wanted to be at the event, but most are going to be spending some quality vacation time in Istanbul, since our all company meeting only ends on the 12th.
If you have not already registered to attend, what’s keeping you? Its free to attend, and Sheeri tells me that there’s some very cool schwag available for grabs.
Aug
26
2010
With OpenSQL Camp and FrOSCon being over for almost a week now, it's time to come up with a short summary. I traveled home on Monday morning and then took Tuesday off, so I had some catching up to do...
As for the past years, FrOSCon rocked again! According to the closing keynote, they had around 1.500 (unique) visitors and I had a great time there. I really enjoyed meeting all the old and new faces of the various Open Source communities. The lineup of speakers was excellent, Jon "maddog" Hall's keynote about "Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World" was quite insightful and inspiring.
Most of the time I was busy with speaking at and …
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Aug
19
2010
In just two days the OpenSQL Camp Europe (hosted by the excellent FrOSCon) will kick off!
We've had a few last-minute changes to the schedule, as some speakers could not make it due to visa or family issues. But we managed to keep all slots filled on both days and I think we've come up with a very nice program! In addition to the two sessions I already had, I've volunteered to take over Giuseppe's talk about Shooting from the Hip. MySQL at the Command Line.
The most up-to-date version of the schedule is on the OpenSQL Camp Wiki, I expect the remaining changes to be reflected on the …
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Jul
14
2010
If you wonder why there hasn't been an update from me for quite a while — I just returned from two months of paternal leave, in which I actually managed to stay away from the PC most of the time. In the meanwhile, I've officially become an Oracle employee and there is a lot of administrative things to take care of... But it feels good to be back!
During my absence, Giuseppe and Felix kicked off the Call for Papers for this year's European OpenSQL Camp, which will again take place in parallel to FrOSCon in St. Augustin (Germany) on August 21st/22nd. We've received a number of …
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Jul
12
2010
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The deadline for the OpenSQLCamp CfP is over. Now it's time
to submit your votes. As we did last year, the procedure is public and transparent. After seeing the list of submitted sessions, you can then vote via mailing list, or via Twitter. But, please, hurry! We need to finalize the schedule at the end of this week. Thanks! |