We've now concluded our call for papers for the MySQL Developer Room at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels, Belgium, which will be open on Sunday, 8th of February from 09:00-17:00.
We received some excellent proposals and I am very excited about the schedule. Here's the quick summary of the talks:
- Vladimir Kolesnikov: Practicing DBA's Guide to the PBXT Storage Engine
- Kris Buytaert: Monitoring MySQL
- Geert Vanderkelen: MySQL Cluster
- Roland Bouman: MySQL 5.1 Plugins
- Kaj Arnö: MySQL, powering and using Social Networks
- Ewen Fortune: Percona MySQL patches and the XtraDB storage engine
- Giuseppe Maxia: Boost performance with MySQL 5.1 partitions
- Jurriaan Persyn: Database Sharding
See the Schedule page on the MySQL Forge for the detailed agenda, including the detailed session abstracts and speaker bios. These talks will soon appear in the general FOSDEM schedule, too. If you are interested in MySQL and any of the topics above, consider visiting us in Room AW1.126! Participation and attendance is totally free, though the organizers happily accept donations and sponsorships.
In addition to the Developer Room, MySQL will share a project desk with the OpenSolaris community. We are still looking for at least one more volunteer that would help us with manning the desk! If you are interested in helping out (2 hours at a minimum), please drop me a line!
My colleague Joerg Moellenkamp stepped up and established the HHOSUG - a local OpenSolaris User Group here in Hamburg, Germany. It has a web-home with discussion forums on Xing.com. Our first physical meetup will take place on Wednesday, 4th of February, 17:45. We will meet in the the meeting rooms at Sun's Hamburg offices (Nagelsweg 55, 20097 Hamburg). If you plan to attend, please RSVP here. We have the following topics on the agenda:
- Organizational issues
- Collecting ideas/suggestions for the HHOSUG: what shall this group aim for?
- Technical session: OpenSolaris 2008.11 internals (Time slider, pkg, etc)
Luckily, Wednesday is usually the day that I am in the office anyway, so I'll just stick around. I look forward to meeting many fellow OpenSolaris fans there 
A (slightly belated) Happy New Year to you! I just returned from my Christmas vacation two days ago, which I spent mostly at home and with my parents-in-law in St. Radegund, Austria. Now I am busy catching up with what has piled up during my absence (I managed to resist the temptation to check my work email during the time off).
Some MySQL-related news that came up in the past weeks and are worth sharing:
- My talk about MySQL HA solutions has been accepted in the main FOSDEM conference track
- The FOSDEM organizers also accepted my lightning talk proposal about Bazaar - it will take place on Saturday, 14h20 (tentative)
- MySQL will have a project stand, that we will share with the OpenSolaris Community. We're still looking for one or two more volunteers that would help us manning the table! If you would like to help out, please register here!
- MySQL will have a developer room at FOSDEM on Sunday. We will be in Room AW1.126 (72 seats) and the session schedule looks great already! We're still working on the fine tuning and scheduling.
- We've almost finished with creating a Japanese version of Planet MySQL (some minor encoding quirks remain to be fixed) and I finally got rid of the remaining parts of code that still used MagpieRSS (only in the admin backend parts) - now everything uses SimplePie instead.
- Dups added the MySQL Buzz to Planet MySQL
- I'm also working on sending out invitations to various MySQL-related projects to represent and showcase their work at the DotOrg Pavilion of the MySQL Conference Exhibition Area. Currently we have confirmation for attendance from Drupal, phpMyAdmin and Sphinx. What other projects would you like to see there? I am open for suggestions/applications
Quite a lot of exciting stuff going on, and more to come. This is a great start into the new year!
