Lenz Grimmer's blog

Last night I returned home from our internal MySQL Developer Meeting in Sorrento, Italy. The trip again was uneventful (something I certainly don't mind) and I used it to catch up with email and other work that I could not take care of while being at the conference.

The event was very well organized (kudos to Carol and the rest of the team!) and I enjoyed meeting old and new colleagues. It was nice being able to discuss stuff from face to face and hearing about what's cooking at the various other parts of the company in more detail. Too bad that we sometimes had so many tracks in parallel - it was difficult at times to decide which session to attend without fearing to miss something else. I gave a presentation about SUSE Linux (why it's the best Linux distro to use) and how our developers can help to foster our user community.

On Monday evening, we arranged a small meeting with local community users, some of them actually came all the way from Rome! David Axmark gave a presentation about MySQL (the company), later we headed out for dinner in a local Sorrento restaurant. The food was excellent and I got the impression that everybody had a great time!

Now I'm back home in Hamburg, where it's cold and nasty outside and there's still plenty of snow. I miss the spring-like weather that we had the past days and I am a bit envious about the folks that are still there (the meeting ends on Sunday, I left earlier).

I am excited to announce that the phpMyAdmin project confirmed to be present at the DotOrg Pavilion of our MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara next month. Thanks a lot to Marc Delisle for the quick reply and arrangement of a representative. One more good addition to the excellent program we've already lined up!

By the way, we still have some open slots to give away for interested projects! So if you're a developer or member of an Open Source project that utilizes MySQL, here's your chance to show off your work to a very special audience. The exhibition will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday, but we'll provide each project with one free conference pass that will entitle you to attend all the other conference sessions! If you are interested in participating, please contact us at community at mysql dot com for more details.