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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

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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!

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FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom – call for participation

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We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in
Brussels.

The MySQL Devroom aims to provide a dedicated space for presentations covering the most popular open source database and celebrate the 30th anniversary of MySQL.

Key dates

  • Proposals can be submitted by October the 30th, 2024
  • Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Brussels time
  • Announcement of the selection committee: 20th of November 2024
  • Announcement of selected talks: 15th of December 2024
  • Conference dates: 1 & 2 February 2025
  • MySQL devroom date: Sunday February 2nd, 2025 afternoon (second half)

Practical

General details

  • The default duration for talks is 25 minutes including discussion (20 + 5).
  • If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don’t! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track.
  • There will be a fringe event, the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days (January 30 and 31), and submitted talks may also be accepted for this event.
  • The MySQL devroom is subject to the same code of conduct as FOSDEM (see below).

For accepted talks

  • You will receive an email to tell you that we accept your proposal
  • Expect additional emails with more instructions

For rejected talks

  • As you can see the amount of tracks is minimal, however, rejected talks have a chance to be selected for the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days.
  • In any case, you will receive an email.

Desirable topics

The MySQL devroom aims to host talks about MySQL and connected projects.

The talks can cover the following subjects:

  • Developer talks (developer using MySQL)
  • Developer talks (developer hacking MySQL)
  • Ops and DBA talks
  • Tooling around MySQL

Marketing or closed source software talks won’t be accepted. Keep in mind FOSDEM’s spirit
when submitting a session. “Hackier is better” ;)

Submit a talk

The Pretalx system will be open for applications from October the 30th, 2024.

Visit the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website (see account creation below).

Your submission must include the following information:

  • The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)
  • Select “MySQL” as the track
  • Select “Talk” event type
  • A short abstract of one paragraph
  • A longer description if you wish to do so
  • Links to related websites / blogs / github / …

Account creation:

If you already have a Pentabarf/Pretalx account, please don’t create a new
one in Pretalx.

To reset your password, go to Pretalx front page and ask for a password reset.

Contact Us

About FOSDEM

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

This announcement can be found at:

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FOSDEM 2023 MySQL & Friends Devroom – schedule

Hello MySQL enthusiasts!

We are excited to announce the schedule for the MySQL & Friends devroom at FOSDEM 2023. This year’s devroom will feature a diverse lineup of talks and presentations focused on MySQL.

The program is still in draft form as we await confirmation of accepted speakers.

We encourage you to mark your calendars and join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative event.

In addition, don’t miss the chance to extend your stay in Belgium and participate to the preFOSDEM MySQL Days that will take place on 2nd and 3rd February 2023. Registration here.

Sunday, Feb 5th

TitleSpeakerStart
A journey to MySQL in K8sElisa Usai13:10
Deep Dive into MySQL Query PerformancePeter Zaitsev13:40
Configuring and limiting MySQL memory usageNorvald H. Ryeng14:10
Life of a Query in Vitess – Impersonating a monolithic databaseHarshit Gangal14:40
On the road to managed databases – Adapt your Galera cluster setup to your needs using ProxySQLMykola Marzhan15:10
Lower your isolation level with ProxySQLJavier Jaramago Fernández & René Cannaò15:40
Extending MySQL with component infrastructure – Will MySQL be out of space soon ?Frédéric Descamps16:10
Extended observability to agentless monitoring on MySQL using ProcFS UDF pluginVinicius Grippa16:40

We tried to have a wide range of popular topics within the limits of available slots and not forgetting the spirit of FOSDEM which is the right place to promote the development and the hacking mindset.

See you in February in Brussels, Belgium !

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FOSDEM 2023 MySQL Devroom – extra info

Hi all,

As you know the CfP for the devroom has been open and you may have noticed that we have only half a day that we also need to share.

Therefore, we will have only 4 sessions and they should look like this:

We didn’t decide yet which of the two colors will be for which project.

Due to the very low number of sessions, we will not attempt to compose a selection committee.

Managing a committee to find the candidates, collect their decisions, communicate and especially ask for votes (and yes often these are very busy people) is a time consuming process.

For the committee, reviewing the proposed sessions is a lengthy procedure and agreeing on 16 sessions is already very complicated so only for 4…

However, you may have also noticed that there will be two pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. We will check the proposed FOSDEM MySQL Devroom session to see if there is any content that could be presented at these pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. I will then contact the speakers and invite them.

Don’t forget to submit inspiring sessions, we look forward to reading them !

See you soon in Belgium !

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FOSDEM 2023 MariaDB, MySQL and Friends Devroom – Call for Papers

Now that FOSDEM is again going to held in-person event, MariaDB and MySQL will once again have a devroom.

FOSDEM 2023 will take place on Sat 4 – Sun 5 February 2023.

However, there are some changes in the organization. Each project will be responsible for its track, so we will divide the devroom into two sub-tracks.

For the convenience of the speakers and participants, we will not mix the two sub-tracks.

You will have the possibility to follow the track you are interested in, or of course both

The other big change is that the devroom is only half a day. This will make talk selection
very complicated as MariaDB and MySQL will only have 4 sessions each !

The MariaDB, MySQL & Friends devroom will be held for half a day, probably on Sunday afternoon.

The MariaDB track will also be holding a virtual event, which will take place outside of the physical devroom times. This will be similar to last year, where a video presentation will have to be prepared well in advance of the physical event.

Key Dates

  • Wed 7 December: Submission deadline
  • Thu 15 December: Announcement of selected talks
  • Sat 4 to Sun 5 February: Conference date

The Call for Paper is now open and, as usual Pentabarf is the platform to use to submit your talks: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23.

Please select the track”MariaDB, MySQL and friends devroom” and ensure you include the following
information when submitting your proposal:

SectionFieldNotes
PersonName(s)Your first, last and public names.
PersonAbstractA short bio.
PersonPhotoPlease provide a photo.
EventEvent TitleThis is the title of your talk – please be descriptive to encourage attendance.
EventAbstractThe description of your talk.
EventSubmission notesIf you submit for “MariaDB devroom“, “MySQL Devroom” (you can set both)
EventDurationPlease set the length of your talk to 20 min !
EventOn-campus?
Online?		Set if you apply for an on-campus in person session in Brussels
Set if you apply for a virtual pre-recorded session

Don’t forget that the deadline to submission is Wed 7 December.

Code of Conduct

Please read FOSDEM’s Code of Conduct.

If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please contact us and we will do our best to assist you.

We hope to see you in Brussels very soon !

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FOSDEM 2022 MySQL devroom schedule updated !

Hello,

Due to a complete misunderstanding about the available slots, FOSDEM’s organization had to remove 2 talks from the previous planned agenda.

However, we didn’t want to announce to previously accepted speakers that their talks were cancelled ! Therefore, we decided, with FOSDEM’s approval, to extend the FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom, opening our room on Saturday afternoon.

Two talks were then moved to Saturday and the two backup talks were immediately added to the schedule !

More work for us and our speakers but more pleasure for all the MySQL fans !

Don’t miss FOSDEM MySQL Devroom’s 2022 edition, free online conference.

Here is the new updated schedule (the official one is available here):

Saturday, Feb 5th

TitleSpeakerStart
Encrypting binary (and relay) logs in MySQLMatthias C14:00
Hash join in MySQL 8.0Øystein Grøvlen14:30
ProxySQL 2021 Dev SubmitJavier Jaramago Fernández15:00
Backup/Restore tools performance comparisonVinicius Grippa, Jean Da Silva11:00

Sunday, Feb 6th

TitleSpeakerStart
Flame Graphs for MySQL DBAsValerii Kravchuk10:00
The relational model in the modern development ageShlomi Noach10:30
ProxySQL Cluster: challenges and solutions to synchronizeconfigurationacross multiple decentralized cluster nodesRené Cannaò11:00
Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) Non blocking operations, what you need to know to avoid pitfallsMarco Tusa11:30
MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet – The integrated solution for disaster tolerance of InnoDB ClustersMiguel Araújo & Kenny Gryp12:00
MySQL on Kubernetes demystifiedMarco Tusa13:00
MySQL Operator for KubernetesJohannes Schlüter13:30
Newest MySQL component services features or how to make an HTTP server accessing table data in a componentJoro Kodinov14:30
MySQL 8.0: Logical Backups, Snapshots and PITR like a rockstarlefred15:10
Why your backup strategy is wrong?Pep Pla15:55
Efficient MySQL Performance – A Book in 40 MinutesDaniel Nichter16:10
MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARMPeter Zaitsev17:00
Release Note Highlights from 2021 – Recap ’23 to ’27Dave Stokes17:30

See you there, don’t miss the event online as you will have the possibility to chat and video talk to all speakers !

Happy FOSDEM !

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FOSDEM 2022 MySQL devroom schedule

The schedule of the MySQL Devroom 2022 is now published: here.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk. As usual we received more submissions than available slots.

TitleSpeakerStart
Encrypting binary (and relay) logs in MySQLMatthias C9:00
Flame Graphs for MySQL DBAsValerii Kravchuk9:30
Hash join in MySQL 8.0Øystein Grøvlen10:00
The relational model in the modern development ageShlomi Noach10:30
ProxySQL Cluster: challenges and solutions to synchronizeconfigurationacross multiple decentralized cluster nodesRené Cannaò11:00
Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) Non blocking operations, what you need to know to avoid pitfallsMarco Tusa11:30
MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet – The integrated solution for disaster tolerance of InnoDB ClustersMiguel Araújo & Kenny Gryp12:00
MySQL on Kubernetes demystifiedMarco Tusa13:00
MySQL Operator for KubernetesJohannes Schlüter13:30
Newest MySQL component services features or how to make an HTTP server accessing table data in a componentJoro Kodinov14:30
MySQL 8.0: Logical Backups, Snapshots and PITR like a rockstarlefred15:10
Why your backup strategy is wrong?Pep Pla15:55
Efficient MySQL Performance – A Book in 40 MinutesDaniel Nichter16:10
MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARMPeter Zaitsev17:00
Release Note Highlights from 2021 – Recap ’23 to ’27Dave Stokes17:30

The time scheduled might still change but those are the accepted talks. We can see that backups are still a hot topic such as High Availability.

Kubernetes is also a trending topic.

Shlomi will deliver something new and we will also have a new type of talk with Daniel presenting his book on MySQL Performance.

Don’t miss FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom on February 6th.

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FOSDEM 2022 – MySQL DevRoom Call for Papers

We received today the notification for FOSDEM’s organization that the MySQL DevRoom is accepted for the 2022’s edition !

The MySQL DevRoom will take place on February 6th, 2022. It’s a Sunday. Like previous edition, FOSDEM will be an online event.

Due to the very short deadlines, this year an external committee cannot be created to validate, sort and vote for the proposed talks.

We will propose the best agenda respecting the ideas and precepts that have made our MySQL DevRoom one of the most popular room of FOSDEM for so many years.

The MySQL Developer room focuses on MySQL and its Ecosystem.

The call for papers for the MySQL DevRoom is now officially open !

Same rules as last year:

  • For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online.
  • The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET).
  • Talks will be pre-recorded, and streamed during the event – Before proposing a session, please make sure you will have the facilities (camera, microphone, network) and time to prepare, upload and review a recording during the first two weeks of January if your proposal is accepted.
  • Q&A session will be live after your talk.
  • A platform will be provided for people watching to join a common chat.
  • A platform will be provided for people watching to submit questions.

These rules may change as they are not yet confirmed by FOSDEM’s organization.

Key dates:

Because creating such event is not easy, because of the indecisive situation, etc… we are now bound by time.

  • Submission deadline: 31st December 2021
  • Announcement of selected talks: as soon as possible
  • Submission of recorded talks: to be determined
  • Devroom date: Sunday 6th February 2022

How to submit:

For this edition, we decided to have a mix of sessions. We are accepting talks of 15, 25 and 40 minutes, with time for questions afterward. The Q&A session will be live. Please, don’t forget to specify the duration in your submission.

You might be aware that the usual standard length for MySQL Devroom is 25 minutes and the majority of accepted talks will certainly be in that range but we are open to exception (explain why in your submission).

All submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool:
penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22

Submit now() :D

While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract, some information about yourself (eg. name, bio, photo, contact information, but remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf).

It’s very important that you select the right track “MySQL devroom” and don’t forget to specify the duration.

And as usual, marketing and sales speeches are not welcome. Please focus on the engineering side, the operations and of course the developers. We want to hear how you are hacking MySQL and develop around it !

Recording of Talks:

The talks in the MySQL developer room as in other rooms must be pre-recorded.

Speakers have to submit a recording of their talk to the devroom in Pentabarf (if the talk is accepted and when recorded, not during the proposal) and be available for Q&A during the event.

By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

In the “Submission notes” field in Pentabarf, please indicate that you agree to the publications.

For example: “If my speech is accepted for FOSDEM MySQL Devroom, I agree to the publication of my recordings, slides provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Sincerely, Name”.

Thank you, and see you soon virtually during FOSDEM 2022 ! Don’t wait too much and submit as soon as possible.

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FOSDEM 2022

Hi all, just some words to let you know that FOSDEM’22 will take place February 5th and 6th. Like last year, this 2022 edition will be an online edition.

As MySQL, we have submitted our candidature for a devroom/track. We are waiting for the approval list.

As soon as we know FOSDEM’s decision, the eventual Call-For-Papers will be opened.

Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, enjoy MySQL !