Tomorrow, The Big Trek starts. Duleepa “Dups”
Wijayawardhana will spend the time from then on until the MySQL
Conference and Expo starts travelling by rail and bus all the way
from home in Montreal to California. Hence the name “Dups on
Rails”. The purpose of the Big Trek is to talk about
MySQL in Canadian and US universities. He’ll also
arrange MySQL Meetups and go on customer visits, as people ping
him.
Towards the end of the trip, as we get closer to the User Conference, Dups won’t be alone. His alter ego Colin Charles (yes, people do mix up Dups and Colin) will join him from 13 April onwards in Northern California. And at the same time, a parallel trek is started by Giuseppe Maxia an Sheeri K. Cabral, in Southern California.
The list of universities include Queens University, University of Western Ontario, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, University of …
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