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Fosdem, MySQL

Fosdem 2017’s MySQL & Friends Devroom Call for Papers is now open !

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Hi all MySQL & Friends fans,

I’ve the pleasure to announce you that the CfP for MySQL & Friends Devroom for Fosdem 2017 is now open.

FOSDEM 2017 edition will be held February 4 and 5 in Brussels like every year since 2000.

The MySQL & Friends Devroom is back again on Saturday from 9.00AM.mysql_and_friends

What is FOSDEM? It stands for the “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting.” It’s a free event that offers open-source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

CfP is open until December 6th (St Nicolas)!

The submission can be done using https://fosdem.org/submit.

If you don’t have an account yet, you must create one entering your personal details like email that we will use to contact you.

Then, after login, you can create an Event and don’t forget to select “MySQL and Friends devroom” or your submission will be lost maybe for ever.

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The duration for the talks are only 20 minutes ! (don’t forget to select it)

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And finally don’t forget to add an abstract:

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For people that doesn’t know it yet, MySQL & Friends Devroom is not the usual conference . Sales and Marketing talks are not welcome. Creativity and hard-code sessions are what we expect. If you have created tools or hacked MySQL, MariaDB or Percona Server, your history interests us and all the attendees as well.

Don’t hesitate to spread the word, we would like to receive even more submission than last year, we have a record to break !

You can find the names of the Committee members that will rate your talks on this page.

lefred.

Community Dinner, Fosdem, Gallery, MySQL

FOSDEM 2016 – GALLERY

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Dim0’s photos:

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Community Dinner, Fosdem, MySQL

MySQL & Friends Community Dinner 2016

FOSDEM is once again descending on the ULB in Brussels, and so again will there be a MySQL and Friends Devroom. Tradition calls for a MySQL and Friends Community Dinner, and we certainly aim not to disappoint this year!

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Like last year, we’ll be renting the same private space to allow for easy socializing (at ICAB , more detailed directions below).

As such, prepare for an evening of food, drink and jolly conversation rivaling the great feasts of old. Disclaimer: Apart from jolliness, overindulgence on any account can not be blamed on the organizers of this event.

The listed ticket price includes all-you-can-eat Belgian Delicacies (or until we run out… go ahead, we dare you), as well as a great selection of Specialty Beers and other beverages. We’ll make sure that vegetarians will have options available, but anyone intending to join us with special dietary requirements (vegan, gluten-free, carnivore…), please let us know ahead of time!

In the interest of transparency: The price we’ve set is based on an assumption of a certain amount of people attending, based on last year’s attendance. If the amount of people ends lower than our target, and we end up having a surplus, any remaining funds will be donated to the Fosdem organization.

The reason we charge money up front is two-fold:

  1. We need to be able to give ourselves a rough estimate of the amount of attendees ahead of time, so we can make sure the caterer prepares enough food for everyone to enjoy. Free signups tend to make that number a bit less reliable. We want to make sure there is enough food to go around for everyone attending!
  2. Stress-free financials on the night of the dinner! We all know the effects of Belgian Beer on arithmetic skills. Flash your ticket, get your food.
We’re looking forward to meeting you all again at Fosdem and the Community Dinner. See you then!

Party-Squad – Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kenny Gryp, Liz van Dijk, Tjerk Ameel

Please register on Eventbrite_Logo_Small

Once again, we want to thank our generous sponsors, whose help makes this affordable at such a great price.

Fosdem, MySQL

FOSDEM MySQL & Friends Devroom CfP is open !

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FOSDEM 2016 edition will be held January 30 and 31 in Brussels like every year since 2000.

The MySQL & Friends Devroom is back on Saturday from 9.00AM.

What is FOSDEM? It stands for the “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting.” It’s a free event that offers open-source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

CfP is open until December 1st!

Don’t forget to submit your sessions (submit here, don’t forget to select MySQL track) trackbefore December and see you soon in Brussels to discover amazing stuff related to MySQL and have some beers with Friends!

This year we propose two different types of talks :

  • 20 min session (15 slots)
  • 40 min session (3 slots)

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Choose 20 or 40 timeminutes for the talk.

 

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Don’t forget the Abstract in the description (second tab).

Fosdem, MySQL

Last minute change in the Schedule

Dear MySQL Friends,

Unfortunately, this year we won’t have the pleasure to attend Raghu’s show. Indeed, he couldn’t apply in time for his Visa.

I would like to thank Andrew Morgan to have accepted to present his talk “MySQL & NoSQL – best of both worlds” to replace “ENOMEM: Will databases ever stop asking for more memory” from Raghu.

Respecting the logic, the next talk should have been “Introduction to MySQL Binlog Events” from Neha Kumari, but once again it was too late for Visa appliance.
Logically, Andrew was the next one and he agrred to present his talk even if the notification was very short.

The final schedule is:

Event Speakers Start End

Sunday
Welcome to MySQL & Friends Devroom Frédéric Descamps 09:00 09:15
ProxySQL : High Availability and High Performance Proxy for MySQL René Cannaò 09:15 09:35
Web mapping with MySQL
An introduction to MySQL GIS		 Norvald H. Ryeng 09:40 10:00
Using MySQL Global Transaction IDs in Production Stephane Combaudon 10:05 10:25
Pseudo GTID and easy replication management Shlomi Noach 10:30 10:50
Zooming in on the New MySQL Group Replication Plugin Luis Soares 10:55 11:15
Docker and MySQL
Fun and bad practice		 Erkan Yanar 11:20 11:40
Understanding & using authentication plugins Colin Charles 11:45 12:05
Moving to the NoSQL side: MySQL JSON functions Sveta Smirnova 12:10 12:30
Undelete rows from the binary log
a hacking session		 Frédéric Descamps 12:35 12:55
Multi-threaded replication in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 Stephane Combaudon 13:00 13:20
The New MySQL Replication Features in MySQL 5.7 and Beyond Luis Soares 13:25 13:45
Materialized Views for MySQL
Using Flexviews for MySQL		 Justin Swanhart 13:50 14:10
Character encoding: breaking and unbreaking your data Maciej Dobrzanski 14:15 14:35
gdb tips and tricks for MySQL DBAs
How gdb can help you to solve MySQL problems		 Valerii Kravchuk 14:40 15:00
Visualizing benchmark data with R and gpplot2 Peter Boros 15:05 15:25
Capacity metrics in daily MySQL checks Vlad Fedorkov 15:30 15:50
Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting Sveta Smirnova 15:55 16:15
MySQL & NoSQL – best of both worlds Andrew Morgan 16:20 16:40
Community Dinner, Fosdem, MySQL

MySQL & Friends Community Dinner

My dear colleagues,  Liz van Dijk, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kenny Gryp, also known as the “Party Team” are organizing the “Fosdem MySQL & Friends Devroom Community Dinner” !

Like last year, we’ll be renting a private space to allow for easy socializing. However, in light of this year’s 20th Anniversary of MySQL in May, as well as MariaDB’s 5th Anniversary in February, we want to take things to the next level, and give the night a true community feel. Our new location is available to us until 2AM, and is part of the ICAB buildings, closer to the ULB (more detailed directions on the eventbrite page).

As such, prepare for an evening of food prepared for the Community, by the Community. That’s right, your hosts will be firing up the pizza ovens and serve you all with the best pizzas Belgium has to offer.

The listed ticket price includes all-you-can-eat pizza (or until we run out… go ahead, we dare you), as well as a great selection of Belgian specialty beers and other beverages. We’ll make sure that vegetarians have plenty of options, but anyone intending to join us with special dietary requirements, please let us know ahead of time!

As you stuff yourselves with glorious amounts of pizza, be sure to leave some room for dessert, as there will be a special birthday surprise in celebration of MySQL’s 20th and MariaDB’s 5th anniversaries.

In the interest of transparency: The price we’ve set is based on an assumption of a certain amount of people attending, based on last year’s attendance. If the amount of people ends lower than our target, and we end up having a surplus, any remaining funds will be donated to the Fosdem organization like last year.

The reason we charge money up front is two-fold:

1) We need to be able to give ourselves a rough estimate of the amount of attendees ahead of time, so we can make sure we buy/prepare enough ingredients for everyone to enjoy. Free signups tend to make that number a bit less reliable. We want to make sure there is enough food to go around for everyone attending!

2) Stress-free financials on the night of the dinner! We all know the effects of Belgian Beer on arithmetic skills. Flash your ticket, get your food.

We’re looking forward to meeting you all again at Fosdem and the Community Dinner. See you then!

Please register on Eventbrite_Logo_Small

We also want to say a big thank you to the sponsors of that main event:
oracleclrrgb

mariadb

percona

and to ICAB Brussels – Business and Technology Incubator