Speaking in the US - San Francisco User Group - Community Summit - OSCON

On July 15th and 16th I will be in San Francisco for a few meetings, and it will be my pleasure to meet the San Francisco MySQL User Group, where I will talk about MySQL Sandbox. From there, I will continue to Portland, to attend the Community Leadership Forum and, of course OSCON, where I will have three talks: two in the main event, and one at the Intel booth.

OSCON in pictures

There was a huge Sun booth at OSCON 2008. During opening hours, there were always sessions at the booth, with well known open source presenters.


After hours, you had the choice between socializing on your own or go to the organized events or go to the BoFs, like this one, where Monty presented what he called "community services" in the shape of black vodka mixed to mint candies.

The event was, of course, the Sun Party, where many strange things happened.

Jay challenged Ronald to a sumo wrestling match, only to bite the dust repeatedly.

The match of the evening was Monty (MySQL) vs. Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL).

MySQL outperformed PostgreSQL in one of the most unusual comparison in the history of these projects!

More pictures from Terri and Barton.

Julian Cash at OSCON 2008

Julian Cash is well known, among other things, for being the photographer of the open source communities, as you can see from his photo stream, or this picture of his newest book.

For more books, you can look at The human creativity project.
At OSCON 2008, participants could attach one or more ribbons to their badge, to state their affiliation with a project or an idea. When the sought ribbon was not available, there were blank ones that users could fill with their favorite topics.
As you can see here, I made free use of the ribbons. Julian Cash, instead, stated his affiliation with Perl quite strongly.

Thanks for sharing your art, Julian!

OSCON 2008 - MySQL Proxy - from architecture to implementation

The presentation about MySQL Proxy at OSCON 2008 is over.

Here are the slides.

Thanks to my co-presenter Ronald Bradford and to all the participants. If you have more questions about the session, please use this blog's comments.

OSCON 2008 - Getting in touch with the open source makers

For some reasons, I have never been able to attend OSCON so far. I have been going to the MySQL Users Conference almost every year in April, and that usually left me without a great desire of crossing the Atlantic again. This year is different. I have crossed the Atlantic already three times, and yet I am about to board a plane once more, heading for the Portland, Oregon.

And for some lucky circumstances, I am also a speaker.
I will join Ronald Bradford on the podium, to speak about (surprise surprise!) MySQL Proxy, from architecture to implementation.
I will have also my hands full in the evenings. There will be plenty of BoFs (including two that I will host) and parties, social gatherings, competitions, which I plan to enjoy for my personal enlightenment, not only to fulfill my duties.
I am looking forward to meet old friends and to make new ones.

BoF at OSCON

I have just been informed that in addition to a regular session, I will host two Birds Of a Feather sessions at OSCON 2008. MySQL Proxy Wizardry MySQL Sandbox, or How to Do Custom Installs in Seconds The call for papers is still open. Any suggestions for more entries?