Celebrating Software Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia

As I mentioned some time ago, Software Freedom Day 08 will take place on Saturday, 20th of September 2008.

Coincidentally, the a large number of Sun/MySQL Engineers and other Sun folks will be in Riga, Latvia for an internal developer meeting around this day. To make use of this opportunity, we plan to give a number of sessions and presentations (in english) about various topics and to contribute to this global celebration of Open Source Software.

We've set up a Team Page on the Software Freedom Day web site for this event - the venue will be the Cafeteria Conference room in the basement of the University of Latvia, Riga, which can accomodate 60-80 people:

Raiņa bulvāris 19
Rīga, LV-1586

There is no entrance fee and you don't have to register - just come by and meet with us! There will be free coffee, refreshments and cake during the breaks.

In the evening, Sun will host a social event (incl. free drinks and food) in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel, starting at 19:30:

Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel
Kugu 24, Rīga, LV-1048, Latvia
Tel.:+371 6706 1147; Fax: +371 6706 1101

We've set up a tentative schedule (45 minutes per session plus 15 minutes of Q&A), please check the Wiki for eventual last-minute changes!

11:00-12:00: MySQL/Open Source in Latvia (Evijs Taube, Sun Microsystems)
12:00-13:00: Open Source Business Models: how to build a business around free software (Speaker TBD)
13:00-13:30: Lunch Break / Ask the Guru your tech questions
13:30-14:30: MySQL in the Enterprise: Customer references, commercial offerings (Rob Young/Robin Schumacher, Sun Microsystems)
15:00-16:00: MySQL Community Overview: How to engage and contribute (Giuseppe Maxia/Jay Pipes/Lenz Grimmer, Sun Microsystems)
16:15-17:15: MySQL Performance tuning best practices (Jay Pipes, Sun Microsystems)
17:15-18:15: Maintaining your Open source project with Bazaar and Launchpad (Lenz Grimmer/Giuseppe Maxia, Sun Microsystems)
19.30: Social event: Software demonstration, buffet and free beer in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel

We'd like to thank Leo Trukšāns, Michael Dexter and Georg Richter for their help and support in getting this event arranged and organized! I look forward to being there and help to spread the word about the stuff that keeps me occupied for more than 13 years now