Made it to Santa Clara, ready for the MySQL Conference!

Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara
Originally uploaded by Lenz Grimmer

After a long and uneventful flight from HAM to SFO via FRA, I arrived safely in Santa Clara yesterday. Today we spent the day in San Francisco, for some sightseeing (Downtown, Chinatown, Pier 39 and Fishermen's Wharf) and a bit of shopping. It was a very nice and sunny day, the sunlight helped a lot with getting over the jetlag for a while.

But now I'm pretty tired - I look forward to meeting friends, colleagues and members of our community at the MySQL Conference, which starts next week. I will also give a talk together with Colin Charles about MySQL Server Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery Planning as well as moderating a BoF about MySQL Code Contributions, where we will talk about the recent developments and changes that we've implemented (or plan to put in place) to make it easier for developers to contribute code to the MySQL project.

I will try to take lots of pictures during the conference, which will be posted to my MySQL Conference Photo Set on Flickr every once in a while.