Well today is Monday, so this must be OSCON. Actually, it's just been pre-conference tutorials so far, but MySQL was well represented with tutorials by Brian Aker and Jay Pipes on MySQL 5.1 in Depth and Maximum Velocity MySQL respectively. And a group of us had dinner at a local Greek restaurant, which was fun. Since MySQL employees are quite distributed, it's nice to get a group together at a conference. We have speakers here at OSCON from Seattle, Australia, Sweden, Finland and Germany. And since this is a technical conference, these are all hardcore talks by real developers; no marketing fluff.
Tuesday is the second tutorial day and also introduces the O'Reilly Radar executive briefing day run by Matt Asay and Tim O'Reilly. There are also plenty of talks by MySQL Developers and Community gurus throughout the OSCON schedule including:
- Sergei Golubchik: Extending MySQL via Plug-Ins (Weds 11:35)
- Lars Thalmann: How A Closed Project Becomes Open (Weds 11:35)
- Lars Thalmann: Future of Replication (Thurs 4:30)
- Arjen Lenz: Concurrency Control in Databases (Thurs 5:20 pm)
- Brian Aker: Hacking Your House w/ VOIP (Fri 11:35)
In addition, here are a few other talks by MySQL Users and Partners that look interesting:
- Sheeri Kritzer: So You've Inherited a MySQL Instance (Weds 4:30)
- Jim Jagielski: Implementing the LAMP Stack (Weds 4:30)
- Murat Demiroglu: Solid OLTP Engine Goes Open Source (Thurs 10:45)
- Bill Karwin: SQL Outer Joins for Fun & Profit (Thurs 1:45)
Also, don't forget that there's a MySQL Party Tuesday at 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the DoubleTree Hotel Cantina Bar where you can meet all of the above folks and pick up a MySQL T-Shirt and drink beer. And there's also a MySQL BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) Thursday 8:00 pm for even more time with MySQL experts!
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