Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Jan 28, 2010
The Call for Proposals for the 2010 MySQL User Conference and Expo ended about 6 hours ago. However, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BoFs) have a separate call for proposals. From the MySQL Conference page at http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/, select the “Program” menu item, then “Birds of a feather sessions”, and you will be directed to the proper page. Which, for easy clicking, is http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/public/cfp/90.
The call for proposals for Birds of a feather sessions closes at 11:59 pm PST on Thursday, February 18th, 2010. Sessions can be added during the conference, but if you submit and your BoF is accepted it will be printed in the schedule.
Note: If you submitted a BoF proposal in the regular call for proposals, it’s much much easier if you submit the proposal again through the BoF call for proposals.
Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Jun 25, 2008
From 7:30 – 8:30 pm tonight, Wed. June 25th, in the Berkeley room of the Sheraton Boston, I will be hosting a Birds of a Feather conversation entitled “Pros and Cons of Managed Services”. This will go beyond MySQL and even beyond remote database management, and just deal with the overall pros and cons.
Come, share your good and bad experiences, and discuss why managed services may or may not be appropriate for your situation. I will try to take notes at the BoF.
(Note: I have no idea if they check badges for Birds of a Feather sessions or not)
Posted by Paul Vallee on Apr 13, 2008
Hello everyone who is attending MySQLConf 2008!
I am finally able to announce when and where the Pythian BoF session has been scheduled! It will be in the Alameda room, 7:30-8:30pm on Tuesday, April 15th.
The session, titled “Ask the Pythian Maestro”, will be attended by myself and our two MySQL team leads, Sheeri K. Cabral and Augusto Bott.
This should be a fun session and hopefully people will show up. Attendees will get to:
- Schmooze with Augusto, Sheeri, and I, ask us your technical questions and find out if we know what we’re talking about
- Meet active Pythian customers – I have just been informed of the schedule and I am hopeful that several can attend
- Find out what it’s like to work at Pythian if that’s what you’re in to
- Find out what it’s like to have Pythian as collaborators at your workplace
- Have some drinks on me. Depending on the rules, I’ll have some on premises and we’ll head to a local drinking joint afterwards for sure
That sounds like a lot of fun to me. I hope to see you there.
Paul
