Andrae, Jacinta and I spent some hours this afternoon going over the proposals and making the final selections. Previously we (and other volunteers) reviewed and commented on proposals based on the volunteer’s subject matter expertise, knowledge of the speaker’s subject and speaking ability, and so on. Anyway, Andrae now has the magic pile with everything [...]
Kaj wrote about changes in the Enterprise and Community offering from MySQL AB – by the way, I still don’t understand why the Community VP delivers these announcements rather than a company press release. A Community VP’s blog can’t be the official publication channel of a PR department, can it? I think Jeremy Cole summarises [...]
I have just been notified that my proposal for a one-day MySQL Miniconf at LinuxConfAU 2008 in Melbourne has been accepted, so here’s the call-for-papers! The MySQL miniconf was packed all day last time, and we had more proposals than we could fit… so, let’s make 2008 a good one too! There are about 6 [...]
Andrae and his gang will take some time, with over 100 submissions to consider, but the CfP is now definitely closed and the program committee is busy doing its thing. If you missed out on making a submission, you can of course still try to beg Andrae, but don’t push your luck as things do [...]