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FOSDEM is back in town, and together with that a new pre-FOSDEM MySQL day, actually 2 days this year!

And of course, we definitely have not forgotten … the MySQL Community dinner!

We continue the by now well known tradition of dining together in style with members from all over the community, and invite you to the ICAB venue (the same location as where the pre-FOSDEM MySQL days are being held.

Book your tickets now!!!

The listed ticket price includes a selection of Belgian …

If you have not purchased your ticket yet for this years FOSDEM MySQL, MariaDB and Friends Community Dinner, hurry! We’ve already sold 2/3 of our tickets since launching tickets sales last week.

The dinner takes place in the same location, on the same day as the  pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day 2019.

Buy your tickets on Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fosdem-mysql-and-friends-community-dinner-2019-tickets-54494889682

We’re looking forward to meeting you all again at Fosdem and the Community Dinner. See you then! Party-Squad – Kenny Gryp,  …

FOSDEM is back in town, folks, and as usual, there will there be a MySQL and Friends Devroom. At this point, we can’t really remember what came first, was it the annual dinner or the devroom? Our memories of the past few years are particularly hazy on that…  Can’t imagine why.

Following a great tradition of dining together in style with members from all over the community, we have rented a by now familiar private space at ICAB, more detailed directions below.

A couple of things changed compared to the last couple of years. The community dinner will take place on Friday night 2 February, following the …

• Fosdem: Check
• MySQL DEVroom: Check
• Food: …

If you were worrying there , even for just a bit, please don’t ;) We are working on organizing the 2018 Edition of the  MySQL Community dinner!

We can already disclose that it will be held at ICAB again, the same location that was used previously and are targeting Friday February 2, following the Oracle Pre-Fosdem MySQL Day,  so come one, come all… but most of all, come hungry!!

Stay tuned, more updates will follow soon!

The FOSDEM MySQL & Friends Community Dinner 2017 is sold out. In the first 24 hours of opening up the registration for the dinner, we sold more than 40 of the 63 total tickets!

I quickly wanted to take some time again to thank our sponsors, who help keep this event possible and affordable:

Wondering how to get there from Fosdem?

The venue itself is located very close to the VUB. You can find the route to get there  …

I will be heading to Brussels on Friday for FOSDEM.

On Friday, February 3rd, I will attend the Pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day where I will give two talks:

How Booking.com avoids and deals with replication lag (at 12:05), Monitoring Booking.com without looking at MySQL (at 15:30).

(A summary of those talks can be found in Le Fred's blog.)

Then, on Saturday, February 4th, I have a talk in the MySQL

Hi dear MySQL Community,

I would like to start this post by saying thanks to our sponsors:

Unfortunately, we are missing one sponsor and to not increase the ticket price but at the same time keep the level of quality for food then promised and the same diversity for our world famous Belgian beer patrimony, we are still looking for one …

FOSDEM is happening again in Brussels, and as usual, there will there be a MySQL and Friends Devroom. We can’t really imagine having a FOSDEM without having a MySQL and Friends Community Dinner, so here we are again..

Like the last couple of years, we have rented the same private space at ICAB, more detailed directions below.

You can buy tickets for the dinner at https://fosdem2017mysqlandfriendscommunitydinner.eventbrite.com

The listed ticket price includes a selection of Belgian Speciality Beers and food will be Belgian food served by a new (and improved) caterer:  …

Here are the last details about the Percona Live 2016 Community Dinner hosted at Booking.com:

you can still register the menu is below the program of the lightning talks is on Giuseppe blog

Booking.com will also do a short talk.  The subject is a surprise !

If you are coming directly to the dinner (not via boats), please bring your registration ticket (electronic version ok) so you can access

I have a new blog post on blog.booking.com describing MariaDB 10.1 Optimistic Parallel Replication (with benchmark results):

Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 4: More Benchmarks in Productionhttp://blog.booking.com/evaluating_mysql_parallel_replication_4-more_benchmarks_in_production.html

If you want to know more about MySQL/MariaDB Parallel Replication and if you are attending