With apologies for the delay (I got sick), and some deliberation, we are now ready to announce the Grand Prize winners of the MySQL 5 Contest. According to the rules, to be eligible to win the grand prize, community members not only had to submit bug reports about MySQL 5, but also maintain a blog [...]
The final winner in the MySQL 5 Contest is…. Dave Pullin from North Carolina (USA). Dave, like the other winners, helped with MySQL 5 by making a number of good quality bug reports. Thanks very much and congratulations, Dave! Of course, many more people submitted reports for MySQL 5 also, literally hundreds of users in [...]
I just received O’Reilly’s conference newsletter… it says Arjen Lentz and his program committee are now sequestered, preparing the richest, most in-depth agenda for any MySQL Users Conference ever. Someone has a way with words… probably Margi Levin at O’Reilly But yes it’s true, we’re hard at work wading through the over 200 (!) submissions. [...]
There are some people who haven’t filled in have their email address or complete name for their mysql.com accounts. Those accounts are used for forum activity, the bugs system, and right now to identify our lucky MySQL 5 Contest winners, which makes it rather important that the basic information in there is complete and correct. [...]
The lucky winner of the tiny funky iPod nano this week is Peter Brawley. Peter has submitted a number of good bug reports for MySQL 5, and happens to also be an active participant on the MySQL Forums and Mailing Lists. Great work, Peter! Thanks.
This is a photo (taken by Lukas Smith using Marcus Boerger‘s camera – Marcus himself is actually in the photo from the event Kaj and I reported on earlier. Spot all the faces from the many different open source RDBMS in there! We had a great exchange of ideas. Naturally, there are differences were each [...]
In the MySQL 5 Contest, this week’s iPod nano winner is…. Christian Hammers! Christian has been very active with MySQL for a number of years, mainly as the MySQL package maintainer for Debian Linux. Congrats Christian, enjoy the wonders of the nano and keep up the excellent work – thanks!
This is the last day of the OpenDBcon, and it’s been fun. Combined with the International PHP Conference in Frankfurt, it’s an interesting crowd. I’ve had nice talks with people from the other OSS DBs, such as Gregory Burd (BerkelyDB, Sleepycat), Josh Berkus, Gavin Sherry and Peter Eisentraut (PostgreSQL), Fred Toussi (HSQLDB), Dan Debrunner (Derby), [...]
Alright, I’m all packed – I think. My wife graciously lent me her iPod nano, even… Flying Singapore Airlines to Frankfurt, via Singapore. Should be comfortable, and Singapore Changi is a nice airport. Showers, beds, comfortable seats… exactly what one needs on a long trip! Yea I’m used to it now, I do at least [...]
Yesterday evening was the monthly meeting of our local MySQL Users Group in Brisbane. What do we get up to at these meetings? Well, there’s always a few new people, so we first do an intro round. With the group growing nicely, we now try to have