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There is a room dedicated to MySQL at FOSDEM 2012. (Thanks to @lefred for organizing).The CfP has received 37 submissions, but there will be time slots only for 12 to 15 talks. So now it's up to the community. If you want to attend a particular talk, you should vote for it.Like in previous years, the selection of the talks is public. You can see the list of the proposals, with the instructions, which I repeat here.You can vote either publicly, using Twitter, or privately, by sending an email. Each talk proposal will be referred by the number immediately after the title in this page. This number indicates the order in which the proposals were received. In public, you should send a tweet to @opensqlcamp, indicating a maximum of 12 talks that you would like to see, in the order you like them. e.g. "@opensqlcamp #FOSDEM2012 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 http://bit.ly/mysql_fosdem_2012" (adding the link will help others to find the page.In private, by email at mysqlfriends AT gmail DOT com, using the same method used for Twitter. Maximum 12 talks, in the order of your preference.In both cases, votes for your preferences will result in 1 point for each talk. In case of equal voting, we will assign 12 points to the first in the list, 11 to the second, and so on. We'll do the tally, and choose the most popular ones.Anonymous votes either by Twitter or email won't be counted. If you want your vote to count, make sure your twitter account has a recognized name (or known nick) on it. If your email address doesn't spell your name, please sign the message with your real one.DEADLINE: Your votes must be entered by January 8th, 2011.

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On Friday, October 15^th, the third OpenSQLCamp in North America will start at 6pm with a social event and then continue with more technical stuff over the week end.
Compared to the overcrowded Oracle Open World with its 45,000 attendees, this event may look like a desert. But the quality of the attendance will more than compensate for the missing thousands.
The event will be held with unconference style. There is a list of sessions, where I have proposed two topics, one for which I would like to see someone stepping up and help defining the topic of Data integrity : comparing the SQL and NoSQL approach and one where I plan to tell an cute technical story about MySQL replication and the quest for a global transaction ID.
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OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010 happens 16-17 October 2010, at MIT in Boston (there is an evening social session on Friday the 15th as well). Its organised by MySQL community aficionado Sheeri Cabral, and by looking at the schedule and sponsors, it is going to be one of the most diverse OpenSQLCamp’s by far.

Monty Program is a sponsor, and I (Colin) will be participating on behalf of Monty Program to bring some information about what’s new from the Istanbul company meeting. More of the company certainly wanted to be at the event, but most are going to be spending some quality vacation time in Istanbul, since our all company meeting only ends on the 12th.

If you have not already registered to attend, what’s keeping you? Its free to attend, and Sheeri tells me that there’s some very cool schwag available for grabs.

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With OpenSQL Camp and FrOSCon being over for almost a week now, it's time to come up with a short summary. I traveled home on Monday morning and then took Tuesday off, so I had some catching up to do...

As for the past years, FrOSCon rocked again! According to the closing keynote, they had around 1.500 (unique) visitors and I had a great time there. I really enjoyed meeting all the old and new faces of the various Open Source communities. The lineup of speakers was excellent, Jon "maddog" Hall's keynote about "Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World" was quite insightful and inspiring.

Most of the time I was busy with speaking at and running the OpenSQL Camp session track in room "HS6", but I managed to sneak out and listen to a few other talks as well. Additionally, I gave a presentation about ZFS on Linux, which had a good crowd and some interesting discussions.

This year, all of the sessions in the main lecture halls were streamed live, so people not able to attend could at least get a glimpse on what was going on these two days. Many times it was a really tough decision to make – there were way too many good sessions going in parallel. So being able to see the recording afterwards somewhat relieved that pain. The FrOSCon team has already begun to publish the video files – they are separated by day and lecture room and can be obtained from http://froscon.tv/.

And we were really lucky with the weather, too - the weekend was warm and sunny, a perfect setting for the social event, which is one of the highlights of FrOSCon. Impressive: this year, the attendees consumed one cubic meter (1000 liters) of Beer!

Finally, I'd like to express my special gratitude to all the speakers of OpenSQL Camp – thank you very much for your support and for devoting your time to participate in our subconference! It was appreciated.

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In just two days the OpenSQL Camp Europe (hosted by the excellent FrOSCon) will kick off!

We've had a few last-minute changes to the schedule, as some speakers could not make it due to visa or family issues. But we managed to keep all slots filled on both days and I think we've come up with a very nice program! In addition to the two sessions I already had, I've volunteered to take over Giuseppe's talk about Shooting from the Hip. MySQL at the Command Line.

The most up-to-date version of the schedule is on the OpenSQL Camp Wiki, I expect the remaining changes to be reflected on the FrOSCon schedule during the day as well.

I would like to express my special gratitude to the folks at Percona, who really did their utmost in order to find replacement speakers for their accepted talks.

I look forward to this weekend. And if you're interested to attend: I still have a few vouchers for free admission to the conference left over. Please contact me directly if you'd like to get one – first come, first serve! See you on Saturday!

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If you wonder why there hasn't been an update from me for quite a while — I just returned from two months of paternal leave, in which I actually managed to stay away from the PC most of the time. In the meanwhile, I've officially become an Oracle employee and there is a lot of administrative things to take care of... But it feels good to be back!

During my absence, Giuseppe and Felix kicked off the Call for Papers for this year's European OpenSQL Camp, which will again take place in parallel to FrOSCon in St. Augustin (Germany) on August 21st/22nd. We've received a number of great submissions, now we would like to ask our community about your favourites!

Basically it's "one vote per person per session" and you can cast your votes in two ways, either by twittering @opensqlcamp or via the opensqlcamp mailing list. The procedure is outlined in more detail on this wiki page.

As we need to finalize the schedule and inform the speakers, the voting period will close this coming Sunday, 18th of July. So don't hesitate, cast your votes now! Based on your feedback we will compile the session schedule for this year's camp. Thanks for your help!

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The deadline for the OpenSQLCamp CfP is over. Now it's time to submit your votes. As we did last year, the procedure is public and transparent. After seeing the list of submitted sessions, you can then vote via mailing list, or via Twitter. But, please, hurry! We need to finalize the schedule at the end of this week. Thanks!

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OpenSQLCamp is less than 4 months away, and I have finally gotten around to updating the site. Special thanks go to Bradley Kuzsmaul and the folks at Tokutek for getting the ball rolling and making the reservation at MIT. Using MIT means that we will have *free* reliable wireless guest access and projects.

OpenSQL Camp is a free unconference for people interested in open source databases (MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, Drizzle), including non-relational databases, database alternatives like NoSQL stores, and database tools such as Gearman. We are not focusing on any one project, and hope to see representatives from a variety of open source database projects attend. As usual I am one of the main organizers of Open SQL Camp (in previous years, Baron Schwartz, Selena Deckelmann and Eric Day have been main organizers too; this year Bradley Kuzsmaul is the other main organizer). The target audience are users and developers, but others are encouraged to attend too. There will be both presentations and hackathons, with plenty of opportunities to learn, contribute, and collaborate!

I have updated the main Boston 2010 page at http://opensqlcamp.org/Events/Boston2010/ with travel and logistics information, including links to:

Register — it’s free and easy, and you can always change your mind later!

Maybe you have an idea for a session you would like to see, or a session you would like to give? If so, you can note it on the sessions page. This will give everyone a sense of what type of presentations will be there. I have started by putting 2 sessions I am willing to give and a third at the bottom for one I’d like to see, to give everyone an idea of both types of descriptions.

Probably the most important link right now is the way we keep OpenSQLCamp free for all attendees – sponsor or donate to the conference! Any donation amount is accepted, and all donations are tax-exempt to the fullest extent of the law. Businesses and organizations will be listed as sponsors if they make a donation of $250 or more, and individuals will be listed as sponsors if they make a donation of $100 or more. More information on sponsor benefits, including where to send a graphic to, at the link.

There is a preliminary schedule, up until the conference itself it will only show the agenda of the conference — how many rooms and what time the presentations are supposed to be. During and after the conference we will update this schedule page with the titles, presenters and links to any notes/videos/audio taken.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask on the mailing list or by posting a comment here.

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The European OpenSQLCamp 2010 will take place in parallel to the Free and Open Source Conference 2010 (FrOSCon) on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in St. Augustin, Germany. St. Augustin is located close to Bonn and Cologne. The Call for Participation is now online.

The event is organized by yours truly and Felix Schupp, and we are open to cooperation from other volunteers.
Specifically, we need help to beat the drum. Even if you can't participate, we will appreciate your help in making the Call for Participation known.
OpenSQLCamp2010 will use the FrOSCon's Pentabarf conference coordination system to collect talk submissions and perform the organizing and scheduling of the talks.
Please create an account there, if you don't have one already. Once you have activated your account via the email address you provided, please log into the system and create a new event. Make sure to select track OpenSQLCamp for your submission!

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IMPORTANT! - FrOSCon uses CA certificates. If you browser does not recognize them, then you need to Import the CAcert Root Certificate before using the CfP pages.

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The deadline for submitting your proposal is Sunday, July 11th, 2010 (12:00pm PST).
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This is not my notes about the MySQL conference that just occurred. These are my thoughts about MySQL conferences in general. Baron wrote in The History of OpenSQL Camp:

After O’Reilly/MySQL co-hosted MySQL Conference and Expo (a large commercial event) that year, there was a bit of dissatisfaction amongst a few people about the increasingly commercial and marketing-oriented nature of that conference. Some people refused to call the conference by its new name (Conference and Expo) and wanted to put pressure on MySQL to keep it a MySQL User’s Conference.

During the conference, I heard a lot of concern about whether or not O’Reilly would have a MySQL conference, and whether or not Oracle would decide to sponsor. I heard all of the following (in no particular order):

* If O’Reilly does not have a conference, what will we do?
* Maybe [http://www.opensqlcamp.org OpenSQLCamp] can be bigger instead of having an O’Reilly conference, because the O’Reilly conference is more commercial.
* If Oracle does not sponsor the O’Reilly conference, it means they don’t care about MySQL/the MySQL community.
* If Oracle sponsors the O’Reilly conference, they’ll ruin it by making it even more commercial.
* Oracle shouldn’t sponsor the O’Reilly conference, they should make a different technical conference, in a different hotel/location and bigger (6,000 people instead of 2,000).
* Oracle shouldn’t make their own technical conference for MySQL, they should let user groups get together and then sponsor it, like they do with Collaborate.

Obviously there are mixed messages here — I don’t see any clear directive from the community. Plenty of people have a strong opinion. What I do see happening is that there will probably be plenty of options:

I know that OpenSQLCamp is not dead — there will be 2 this year, check the website for details.

I also know know that there will be a *real* MySQL track at Oracle OpenWorld — there was a rumor that the number of sessions would be fewer than 5, but sources on the inside have said that will not be the case.

I also know that we will hear from O’Reilly in the next few months about next year’s MySQL conference.

So, regardless of what happens, the nay-sayers will say how awful it is, and the pollyannas will say how great it is. There are plenty of reasons that each scenario is good and bad; so keep that in mind.

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