Expanding the architecture of participation and talking about it at FrOSCon
I'd like to bring two announcements to your attention, that I posted to our internals Mailing list a few days ago - both refer to ongoing activities at MySQL AB to further open up our development processes and to establish an Architecture of Participation around the MySQL Server and related applications.
I am excited to be able to talk about this topic at the upcoming FrOSCon, which will take place on August, 25th-26th in Sankt Augustin, Germany. The title of my presentation will be "Opening the doors of the Cathedral - Enabling an architecture of participation around the MySQL Server". Here's the abstract:
Even though the MySQL Server is released and distributed as Open Source Software (OSS) under the GPL, the development itself so far has mostly been performed in a very closed-source fashion, as most of the developers are employed by MySQL AB. This talk covers some of the ongoing efforts to establish an architecture of participation around MySQL that attempts to move the MySQL server development process into the public, making it more accessible to other developers interested in contributing.
I submitted two additional talks about "HA Solutions for MySQL" and "Working in a virtual company: benefits, challenges and tools" - unfortunately both were rejected. However, there are two additional talks related to MySQL: "Logging and monitoring a database server" provided by Giuseppe Maxia and "PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: Venus vs. Mars" provided by Susanne Ebrecht.
I personally enjoyed last year's FrOSCon very much and I look forward to this year's edition! Make sure to mark the date in your calendar and come over to meet with us and other OSS people!
Without further ado, here's a repost of the two announcements I sent out:
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