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Community Dinner, Fosdem, MariaDB, MySQL

BELGIAN MYSQL, MARIADB and friends COMMUNITY DINNER – FRIDAY 31 January 2025

FOSDEM is back in town! And the MySQL Devroom is back after one year of absence on the main event. Same as the last few year the MySQL community team is once again organizing the Belgian MySQL Days. This provides us with the opportunity to bring the community together to socialize and exchange idea’s over a Belgian beer or a glass of wine.

So, following a great tradition of dining and drinking together in style with members from all over the community, we have rented a by now familiar private space at ICAB, more detailed directions below.

Book your tickets now!!!

The listed ticket price includes a selection of Belgian Speciality Beers and food, which will be typical Belgian style.

If you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free,…) please let us know ahead of time when buying the ticket as we need to inform the caterer who wil make the necessary accommodations for you.

Party-Squad – Matthias Crauwels, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Tom De Cooman, Liz van Dijk, Kenny Gryp

Devroom, Fosdem, MySQL

FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom – Selection Committee

Now that the call for participation is open, let me present the selection committee members that will read, evaluate, and rate your submissions.

Committee members are responsible for evaluating and scoring proposals.
They must also consider certain constraints, such as that the project must be open source, and that the session must be technical and in English. The best proposals will be selected for the devroom on Sunday afternoon.

Daniël van Eeden

Daniël van Eeden has been an active member of the MySQL community for many years. Besides contributing to MySQL, Wireshark, go-mysql, DBD::MySQL, and TiDB, he has contributed to many other projects. He has received a MySQL Rockstar award in 2023. He is currently employed by PingCAP.

Alkin Tezuysal

Alkin Tezuysal is the Director of Services at Altinity Inc. He has extensive experience in open-source relational databases, working in various sectors and large functions. With over three decades of industry experience, he has led global operations teams for MySQL customers and users. He’s a known speaker at worldwide open-source database events.
His recent achievements extend into open-source communities: He was awarded Most Influential in Database Community 2022 by The Redgate 100. He has co-authored MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition 2022, by O’Reilly Media, Inc. He was awarded MySQL Rockstar 2023—Oracle (MySQL Community)—Co-authored Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL 2024 by Packt.

Jean-François Gagné

Jean-François is a System / Infrastructure Engineer currently working as a MySQL Open Source Developer in Aiven’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO). Before that, his missions were improving operations and scaling MySQL and MariaDB infrastructures at HubSpot, MessageBird, and Booking.com. J-F is also the maintainer of Planet for the MySQL Community: a news aggregator for the MySQL Ecosystem. Before being involved with MySQL, he worked as a System / Network / Storage Administrator in a Linux and VMWare environment, as an Architect for a Mobile Telco Service Provider, and as a C & Java Programmer in an IT Service Company. Even before that, while learning computer science, Jeff studied Cache and Memory Consistency in Distributed Systems and Network Group Communication Protocols (yes, the same as Group Replication).

Scott Stroz

Scott has been a full-stack developer for longer than the term “full-stack developer” has been around. At that time, MySQL was the only constant in his development stack. He is passionate about sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes. Scott is a MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle and is part of the MySQL Community Team.

Dimitri Vanoverbeke

Dimitri brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in Open Source solutions, with 17 years dedicated to professional roles in the field. 

At Percona, he guided organizations through public and private cloud adoptions, creating customized solutions tailored to meet specific and strategic needs. Passionate about the Open Source ecosystem, Dimitri has served as an advisor across multiple industries, specializing in Open Source database and MySQL implementations. He focuses on delivering exceptional solutions that prioritize flexibility and avoid vendor lock-in, ensuring clients can fully leverage the power of Open Source.

Marcelo Altmann

Marcelo is a Senior Software Engineer at Readyset, working on a query caching solution that speeds up MySQL and PostgreSQL workloads. Before this, he was at Percona, where he contributed to Xtrabackup and Percona Server. Some of Marcelo’s work even made it into MySQL through code contributions, which he’s proud of. With almost two decades of experience working with databases, Marcelo is passionate about building tools that make them faster, more reliable, and easier to use.

Arnaud Adant

He has over 20 years of database experience. Arnaud started his career as a software engineer, became more interested in database technology, and joined Oracle MySQL in 2011 as a support technical engineer. He is now Database Team Lead at Jump Trading in Chicago, Illinois. When not on a database issue, he likes to play ping pong and read ancient Chinese texts. He is the author of Huaying, a Chinese dictionary iOS app.

Now that the presentations are done, it’s time to submit your session to have a chance to shine on stage during the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom!

Good luck to all submitters!