There are certain things in life that you can count on …

FOSDEM is back in town, and together with that a new pre-FOSDEM MySQL day, 2 days again this year!

And of course, we definitely have not forgotten … the MySQL Community dinner!

We continue the by now well known tradition of dining together in style with members from all over the community, and invite you to the ICAB venue (the same location as where the pre-FOSDEM MySQL days are being held.

Book your tickets now!!!

The listed ticket price includes a selection of Belgian Speciality Beers and food. If you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free,…) please let us know when buying the ticket as we need to inform the caterer who will make the necessary accommodations for you.

We’re looking forward to meeting you all again at FOSDEM , the pre-FOSDEM MySQL days and the Community Dinner. See you then!

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

For a long time, the MySQL & Friends devroom has requested FOSDEM’s organization to extend the devroom to 2 days.

Why ? Because we receive a large amount of awesome proposals and we don’t have enough time. FOSDEM increased the size of our devroom multiple times but the popularity of it never declined and you should now be familiar with the “We are FULL” sign in front of the door. Over the time we also squeezed the talks in the agenda and shrink them to 15 mins without break to propose to our user the max of that devroom day.

This edition will be online, so no more room space to fight for. The consequence of this is that MySQL will have again its own dedicated devroom and so will have MariaDB. Both projects are taking different directions and are no more drop-in replacement. We will then be able to focus on content related to MySQL and projects around it. This also means twice more content for the users. If everything stays as planned, MariaDB Devroom will take place on Saturday, February 6th and MySQL & Friends Devroom on Sunday, February 7th.

Good luck to MariaDB’s first Devroom (expect me to come say hi)!

So back to the MySQL Devroom, due to some delay in the announcement of Devroom’s acceptation from FOSDEM’s organization, we have some delay in our planning too.

We will now begin by assembling a new Talk Review and Election Committee and very soon the Call For Paper !

I hope to see you all online to share a virtual Belgian Beer (secondary effects are more reasonable) and stay tuned for the CfP.

lefred.

The Call for Papers is over !

Thank you to all of you who have submitted a talk for the Fosdem 2016 MySQL & Friends devroom !

We received 40 talks that will be sent to the committee for review. Then as soon as the talks we be rated, we will contact all the submitters to let them know if their talk(s) was approved or not.

Be patient ! ;-)

Thank you again, this will be an awesome event !

 

Hi all MySQL afficionados !

I just wanted to keep you informed that Fosdem’s organization opened the proposals for Devrooms.

As every year now, we submitted our participation. As soon as our devroom will be approved, the Call For Papers will be published.

Stay tuned for more information.

Cheers !