Lenz Grimmer's blog

It is really noticable that the summer is over now. While it was quite silent during the past few months, the last quarter of the year will be packed with conferences and events again.

And we will contribute our share to it, too: in addition to sending speakers to various upcoming events, MySQL will also host two European MySQL User conferences next week. The MySQL Northern Europe Customer Conference will take place in London (UK), on Tuesday, October 17th 2006. Two days later, the MySQL Central Europe Customer Conference will be held in Munich (Germany) on Thursday, October 19th 2006. Both are one-day events, with two tracks of talks in parallel. The sessions will be held by both MySQL employees as well as customers, talking about their experiences in using MySQL in their environments.

I attended a similar event in Warsaw, Poland two weeks ago, where I spoke about MySQL, Open Source and Community in front of an audience of about 350 people. The organizers actually had to close the registration four weeks before the event, as they could not arranger a larger room on short notice. A few pictures of the confererence can be found in my Gallery. I was very impressed by the audience and the interest about OSS and MySQL in particular. We received a lot of good comments and had nice discussions with the attendees.

On Thursday this week (the 12th), I will be speaking at the Linux Business Day in Luebeck, Germany. It will be a general session about MySQL (both the company and the product) as well as the benefits of Open Source Software in general and MySQL in particular.