Speaking at FrOSCon and organizing the OpenSQLCamp 2009, European Edition

Today I received a confirmation that I will be giving a talk about "Working for a virtual company" in the main conference track of the Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) in St. Augustin, Germany (August 22nd+23rd). Yay! I've been giving talks at every FrOSCon since its inception in 2006, so I am happy that I will be able to continue this tradition. FrOSCon is really a gem among the various Linux and Open Source Conferences in Germany — it takes place at a nice venue, the weather is usually warm and sunny and the conference organization is just great. And they of course always have a good lineup of speakers and OSS projects! As for the last years we (Sun/MySQL) will support the event by sponsoring and we will likely have a booth there as well. My colleague Joerg Moellenkamp also received his confirmation, it's quite likely that he'll be speaking about Solaris/OpenSolaris, as that's his home turf

In addition to that, the organizers agreed on providing us with a "Developer Room" for both days, which we would like to use to set up a subconference about Open Source Databases (there will also be a dedicated Java Subconference this year). Dubbed the "OpenSQLCamp 2009, European Edition", we plan to organize two days of talks and presentations to spread the word about the vibrant communities and large ecosystems around Open Source Databases, and to educate the attendees about what alternatives exist to commercial databases. So this will by no means be limited to MySQL only! The more variety, the better. I've set up a page on the OpenSQLCamp.org Wiki with some more details. More information will follow in the coming days. If you're interested to contribute, submit a talk or to know more, please also join the opensqlcamp discussion group! I'd like to thank Sheeri Cabral and Baron Schwartz for giving me a hand with the infrastructure - your help is appreciated!