Today the German speaking MySQL User Group (DMySQLAG) was officially founded in Berlin.

The association advocates:

• the information of the use, the handling and the experience with MySQL and development in the MySQL Eco-System as well as systems which use MySQL.
• the exchange of experience between MySQL users about MySQL and other systems.
• the Advice and Cooperation with Oracle and vendors of other systems.
• the submission of suggestions of the members to Oracle and vendors of other systems.

The intention of the German speaking MySQL User Group is to be a platform for MySQL User from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To get a high enough weight for Austria and Switzerland we hope for a high number of registrations of these two countries.

Who wants to be listed as a founding member, should asap (until Friday) send us a notice via e-Mail.

A later …

Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla.

I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program.

Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls:

• Alina Mierlus, Free Software/Open Source advocate and a driver of Mozilla.ro
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I just started a new blog on photography, in German. It’s based in http://blogs.arno.fi/foto/ and so far only has just four entries — one on a photo session with fashion photographer Riccardo Desiderio, one on my ensuing autumn portraits of my wife along the Isar here in Munich, one on fun underwater photography ( …