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MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition: Positions 5 to 10

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

With the GA announcement of MySQL 5.1 coming up, we have picked the winners in the MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition.

To keep you in suspense, let me first announce those on positions 5 to 10:

5. Fourat Zouari (TriTUX.com, Tunis, Tunisia): Using Partitioning for Data Warehousing. See Fourat’s DevZone article, and his blog entry from May 2008.

6. Ryan Thiessen (Big Fish Games, Seattle, Washington, USA): Logging Game Downloads with Partitioning. See Ryan’s DevZone article.

7. Christopher Lavigne (Breadboard BI, Inc., Pleasanton, California, USA): Using MySQL 5.1 for Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence. See Christopher’s DevZone article.

8. Jianzy Zhaoyang (Alibaba.com, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China): Using the MySQL 5.1 Event Scheduler for an Online Chat System. When Jian’s ongoing migration is done, he has promised a DevZone article.

9. Jakub Vrána (phpMinAdmin, Prague, Czech Republic): Managing Events in phpMinAdmin. See Lenz Grimmer’s blog entry.

10. Santo Leto (HoneySoftware, Trieste, Italy): 5.1 Use Case Reports. See Santo’s blog entries.

Thanks an congratulations, Fourat, Ryan, Christopher, Jian, Jakub and Santo! Your MySQL Community Contributor T-shirts are underway.

Links:

  • http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/07/18/mysql-51-use-case-competition/
  • http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/08/26/mysql-51-use-case-competition-until-end-of-september
  • http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/tritux_partitioning_datawarehousing.html
  • http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/big_fish_games_partitioning.html
  • http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/breadboardbi_data_warehouse.html

Posted in Architecture of Participation, MySQL, MySQL Server, Use cases | No Comments »

The Sun Model for Open Source business is emerging

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Simon Phipps yesterday blogged about the emerging Sun Model for Open Source business:

As time has gone by, a clear “Sun Model” for open source business has been emerging, at least to my eyes. The summary of it is:

  1. remove barriers to software adoption between download and deploy;
  2. encourage a large and cohesive community of software deployers;
  3. deliver, for a fee, the means to create value between deploy and scale, for those who need it.

Each software team at Sun interprets this model in a slightly different way, but the model holds pretty much everywhere and works regardless of the license for the code. As a business model, it doesn’t have much to say about the nature of the development community, but I believe dysfunction in that area is a barrier to adoption so it’s always an issue if dysfunction exists.

This model is the natural progression of the concept of monetising at the point of value, and I hope to explore it more over the coming weeks. Feel free to ask questions below about the things needing clarification.

Expressing the Sun Model this concisely is not easy. Just three points, two of which are one-liners at least on my screen. And at least MySQL follows it, not just to the spirit, but I’d venture to say we follow it even to the letter.

Impressive job, Simon!

Posted in Architecture of Participation, Licensing, MySQL, Sun | No Comments »

Now I’m blogging in Russian, too!

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

To understand a bit of Italian, I just need a comparatively small amount of vino bianco. By contrast, to get any information flow going at all in Russian requires larger amounts of … preparation. That doesn’t have to be vodka, it can also be interesting discussions with Russians, or the opportunity to give a speech.

Now, a blog is the scalable way to interact with the rest of humanity, and I’m trying to increase my fluency in all things Web 2.0. So, here goes, may I present my Russian blog:

Like in the case of presenting my Italian blog, let me quote Google Translate’s automatic translation of some of my “writings” — deliberately doing so without making any improvements on the automatic translation:

Why this blog?

When I learned to read when I was five years old, I decided to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. This is not a normal thing to do in Finland at the time, but how was I supposed to know? A television program called “Good evening, ‘and learn to read Russian, appears to be a smart career move for a five-year-old boy.

And I learned Russian alphabet. Nevertheless, I did not learn the Russian language.

Although I grew up in a neighboring country, the Soviet Union, it took until 1985 before I first went there. I went with two friends, and we stayed at the Hotel Europe. Incidentally, in Finland, Archbishop John Vikström was there at the same time.

Now it’s time for me to learn Russian. In addition, I visit Russia more than once a year, so I decided to start a blog in Russian.

The purpose of my blog is to

  • learn more Russian
  • to learn more about Russia
  • be inspired to visit Russia more

I go to Russia for work and for pleasure, and I use blogs for both purposes.

Why not write a blog in Russian?

The fact that I do not speak English is not an excuse, not a blog in Russian.

I want to prove the point: these days, it is possible to create a blog in Russian, even if you do not speak Russian, but only pretends to do so.

I have occasionally tried to pick up a little Russian language for many years, but what makes this blog Google Translate. Usually, I write in Swedish, but unfortunately the Russian language has a high quality, starting with English. That is why I first write something in English. Next, I ask Google to translate my text in Russian. I look at the translation and make the first guess as to whether it is perhaps understandable. Finally, I ask Google to translate it back from Russian to English. If I can understand it, I finally publish my text.

Let’s see where this experiment takes me!

Tags: gladness, friendship, contacts, Russian, Respect, language

Fandorin: Naming issues

How to choose the name “blogs.arno.fi / fandorin /” to my blog?

Well, “blogs” should be easy and self explanatory.

And “arno” should also be fairly easy to understand: That’s because my name Arnö, and people used 7-bit domain names (why I bought arno.fi but not arnö.fi).

“. Fi” part, of course, must be self-evident: I am from Finland. I grew up in Finland. I have always lived in Finland, except for 2002-04 (in Munich) and 2006 - the year (in Munich). Summary: I am a Finnish citizen, as all my ancestors over many generations [1].

“/ Fandorin” part deserves more explanation. I chose it because my closeness to Russian literature, particularly for my favorite characters Erast Petrovich Fandorin books Boris Akunin. I think I have read all of them (unfortunately, not in Russian, but also in German).

Alternative names for your blog could be “yevski”, as I always joked that I wanted someone to write an operating system with the same name. Why? Because I could write a utility for converting files yevsky (and move them into DOS). The title of this utility will dostoyevski. However, as DOS virtually obsolete, I have concluded that there would be no market for these products.

[1] my father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father, Jakob Saktmodig of Dragsfjärd in Finland, was in line with the church books (1712) “rysk afföda”, which I always interpreted as a “lower-quality Russian origin” (but handwriting in the book was bad)

Tags: Fandorin, Boris Akunin, Dostoevsky, Fandorin, Finland, Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Providing a presentation in Russian

Yesterday and today I had the opportunity to make a presentation in Russian. Colleagues of MySQL and Sun have helped me to translate from English to Russian what I wanted to say.

The presentation takes about six minutes to deliver, and I was very happy to get a lot of questions afterwards.

As I clearly do not speak Russian, it seems to be strange, the idea of simply reading aloud from the paper for six minutes. Let me explain why I think it was a good idea, but first let me paste the contents of my speech:

Dear users of MySQL, dear Sun customers and students of St. Petersburg University, Ladies and Gentlemen! Good evening! I am pleased to welcome you today at this meeting where we gather to celebrate and discuss the company’s acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems. I hope this meeting will give a better idea of what benefit each of you can draw from combining our companies. [...]

Now you may ask yourself: Why am I talking in English, when it is obvious that I can hardly even understand what I am talking about?

I tried to explain why I do it in my blog entry in blogs.mysql.com / kaj /. Here are some central parts of it:

“Why” and “How to” make the presentation more local than this can be done in English

English as a language of communication greatly exaggerated. In the international context, English may be sufficient for the transfer of meaning, but it has serious drawbacks when it comes to creating social ties, showing respect, to build confidence and having fun.

In general, there is nothing wrong in English. This is a good language, just as many others. But just as in biology, monoculture causes many risks, and diversity is good. Let’s celebrate it, let’s enjoy it, and let us reap commercial benefits from it!

Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems, use, acquisition, Respect, Language

To my surprise, I got comments on my Russian blog even before announcing it. Thank you, karidola! You seem to share my interest in the Finland Swedish author Tove Jansson (she’s the one with the Moomins that I found in Japan) and in the Icelandic language

For those of you who, unlike me, can read Russian faster than a five-year-old, I suggest you to take a look at these pages that I pretended to write, and for which I used no other help than what can be obtained through Wikipedia and Google Translate (specifically, I used no human / Russian help):

  • Почему именно этот блог? http://blogs.arno.fi/fandorin/why-this-blog/
  • Почему бы не писать блог на русском языке? http://blogs.arno.fi/fandorin/2008/10/25/why-not-write-a-blog-in-russian/
  • Предоставление презентации на русском языке http://blogs.arno.fi/fandorin/2008/06/17/delivering-a-presentation-in-russian/
  • Fandorin: именования вопросы http://blogs.arno.fi/fandorin/2008/10/25/fandorin-name/

As with the Italian blog, what I really am curious to know is, what my Russian speaking friends and colleagues will say. Anjuta? Sergei? Kostja (who looks like Fandorin on the book cover)? And Dima, Alik, Igor, Bar, Holyfoot, Gluh, Ramil, Vladislav, Kaamos, Sveta, Vita, Evgeniy, Sanja, Valerii, Timour, Lawrin, Peter, Arseniy, Kitry, Natalia, Natasha, Grisha, Elena, Dmitry, Ekaterina, Olga, Vladimir, Egor, (and I’m sure I’ve embarrassingly omitted several friends — please forgive me), and last but definitely not least, Морж!

Posted in Architecture of Participation, MySQL, Travel, Virtual company | 4 Comments »

I’m blogging in Italian!

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Given that I don’t speak Italian, it may seem a bit strange that I just started an Italian language blog on http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/:

Kaj's Italian blog

But I do have a point with my blog. Let me quote Google Translate’s automatic translation of some of my “writings” — deliberately doing so without making any improvements on the automatic translation:

Why this blog?

“Of all the languages that I do not speak, I speak Italian the best.”

This is my motto when it comes to speaking Italian. Moreover, Italy is my favorite country to visit for pleasure, so I decided to start a blog in Italian.

The purpose of my blog is

  • Learn more Italian
  • to learn more about Italy
  • inspired to visit Italy more often

I go to Italy for both work and pleasure, and I use the blog for both purposes.

Why not write a blog in Italian?

The fact that I do not speak Italian is no longer an excuse, not to have a blog in Italian.

I want to prove a point: these days, it is perfectly possible to create a blog in Italian only by pretending to speak Italian.

I like to say “Of all the languages that I do not speak, I speak Italian the best, but what enables this blog is Google Translate. I normally write in Swedish, but unfortunately, the translation has a higher quality if you start from English. This is why I initially write something in English. So, I ask Google to translate my text into Italian. I read the translation and make a first proofreading if it might be understandable. Finally, I ask Google to translate again from Italian to English. If I can still understand, I finally publish my text.

Let’s see where this experiment takes me!

I spoke Italian to 4 minutes 12 seconds!

Today I delivered a speech in Italian. Many thanks to Giuseppe Maxia, who translated my speech yesterday by the French. I pasted here:

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this informal meeting to celebrate and discuss the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems.

My name is Kaj Arno, and the Vice President for the Community of MySQL. I come from Monaco, but not the Bavarian. Finnish are as Monty, the creator of MySQL, and many others.
During the integration with Sun, I also the role of Ambassador of MySQL, that I visit all the offices and explain what Sun MySQL. [...]

Now, you may ask yourself: Why speak Italian, when it is clear that I can not speak it?

I tried to explain why I do my blog in English. Some central parts of it:

The “Why” and “How” to do more local presentations of what can be done in English

The English as a language of communication is highly overrated. In an international context, English may be sufficient to transmit meaning, but has serious shortcomings when it comes to establishing a social relationship, showing respect, to create a climate of trust, and to have fun.

All in all, there’s nothing wrong with English. It is a good language, like many others. But just as in biology, monoculture comes with many risks, and diversity is good. Let us celebrate, let us enjoy, and we try to derive commercial benefits out of it!

“Egosurfing” in Italy

The term “egosurfing” is used to describe the act of entering his name into a search engine site to assess its presence and relevance on the Internet. It can be seen as selfish, or at least vain. However, they are not free of those sins.

I decided to do some “egosurfing” specific to Italy, adding “site:. It” for the research: “Kaj Arno” site:. It. To my surprise, I found 135 items!

Here are some results: [...]

For those of you who, like me, sometimes pretend to read Italian, I suggest you to take a look at these pages that I pretended to write, and for which I used no other help than what can be obtained through Wikipedia and Google Translate (specifically, I used no human / Italian help):

  • Perché questo blog? http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/perche-questo-blog/
  • Perché “Dolce vita?” http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/2008/10/25/perche-dolce-vita/
  • Perché non scrivere un blog in italiano? http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/2008/10/25/perche-non-scrivere-un-blog-in-italiano/
  • “Egosurfing” in Italia: http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/2008/10/25/egosurfing-in-italia/
  • Ho parlato italiano per 4 minuti 12 secondi! http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/2008/04/03/ho-parlato-italiano-per-4-minuti-12-secondi/

What I want to say at this point is: Thank you, Google Translate!

And what I really wonder is, what will Giuseppe say? And Ivan Zoratti? And Maurizio Gianola? And Massimo, Emanuela, Raffaella, Luca, Franco, Ettore, and all my other Italian friends and colleagues?

Posted in Architecture of Participation, MySQL, Travel | 3 Comments »

On Loyalty, Competition and Underdogs

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

“So, I suppose MySQL’s main competitor is Oracle?” is a frequent question I get asked by the press. “Well, we don’t really compete heads-on with other databases. We co-exist! Just as an example: Over a third of respondents in an Oracle User Group survey said they also use MySQL”, I answer.

The reporter then continues “But everyone has a main competitor. Don’t you plan for people to migrate from Oracle to MySQL?”. I continue with “Not really. Migrations do happen, but not all that often. MySQL tends to be used in new applications.”

“But surely you must have some competitive atmosphere, or equivalent feelings towards Oracle.” The reporter never gives up. “Don’t you at least internally joke about your relationship with Oracle?”.

And that’s where I will now have a new answer for whichever reporter nexts goes down that line of reasoning.

So let me take that story from the beginning. My fourteen-year-old son has just started blogging about football, and his second blog entry is about an existential issue involving the moral values of loyalty and competition. After many years as a fan of Germany’s incumbent football team Bayern München, and after a not-so-great start of the season for the team, he went to a match with the local arch-rival TSV 1860. The 1860ers are not in the German First League, and they are somewhat of an underdog. And now he’s starting to question his loyalty towards Bayern München.

I shared his blog ponderings over email with the group of people formerly known as MySQL GmbH employees, one of whom saw a surprising analogy: Between Bayern München / TSV 1860 and Oracle / MySQL. It was so hilarious, that I dare share it, as a symbol of the type of stories we sometimes circulate internally. My son has two lists, “Why to stay with Bayern München” and “Why to switch to TSV 1860″. My colleague translates these football loyalty questions to database choice questions.

The blog is in German (as is my colleagues email), and instead of a complete but somewhat weird Google Translate conversion, I’ll here provide a slightly more polished translation (and the Oracle comments by my colleague in parenthesis):

These facts speak for continuing as a Bayern fan (… as an Oracle user):

1. I am still a member (I still use Oracle)
2. A sold-out stadium looks good (Oracle Datacenter looks good)
3. All my Bayern fan gadgets (all my Oracle fan gadgets)
4. The feeling of “Your hatred is our pride” (ditto)
5. German Premier League and Champions League, at least for the time being (ditto)
6. Some good players, such as Ribéry
7. I was always a Red [fan of Bayern], and “conversions” is bad form (I was always a fan of Oracle and …)

This speaks for a switch to TSV 1860 (… a switch to MySQL):

1. I’ll get tickets much easier (MySQL is lots easier to obtain)
2. My school is full of Lions [fans of 1860], I’d have fewer fights (there are so many MySQL Forums with helpful co-developers, even a MySQL Forum on Oracle)
3. The transfer policy of Bayern (the sales policy of Oracle)
4. The atmosphere in the stadium is somewhat better (the atmosphere at the MySQL user’s conference is clearly better)
5. Being an underdog feels good
6. More creative fans, including songs (there are creative MySQL songs, too!)
7. Sometimes when Bayern plays, you’re the only one who sings in your area of the stadium (plenty of MySQLers sing, even on YouTube!)
8. Frequently, Bayern fans are Bayern fans only “because they always win” (Frequently Oracle fans are Oracle fans and not Open Source fans, “because you’re not fired for buying Oracle”)

The conclusion, in database terms?

  • MySQL co-exists with other databases, such as Oracle
  • MySQL is often used for web apps in these coexistence scenarios
  • MySQL focuses on applications that scale
  • MySQL has a low TCO
  • Oracle DBAs may want to add MySQL skills to their resume

Links, if you want to pursue the above thoughts:

  • MySQL Resources for Oracle DBAs: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/oracle/
  • MySQL TCO Savings Calculator: http://www.mysql.com/tcosavings/
  • DBA Boot Camp: MySQL for the Oracle DBA: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/oracle/oracle_bootcamp/
  • Oracle Users Indicate Increase in Use of Open Source: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_ioug.php
  • MySQL Unlimited: Deploy an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise Servers for the price of a single CPU of Oracle Enterprise Edition: http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/unlimited.html
  • Lycos Europe Migrates to MySQL, Reduces TCO by 90%: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/mysql-lycos-casestudy.pdf
  • T-Systems Relies on MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/mysql-tsystems-casestudy.pdf

Posted in Architecture of Participation, MySQL | 5 Comments »

Moving from MySQL’s Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to Sun’s Contributor Agreement (SCA)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Today is Good News Day. In addition to my note on Ivan Nikitin’s improved health, I have good news for our current and potential code contributors:

We have moved from having used MySQL AB’s own Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to now using the Sun’s Contributor Agreement (SCA), which is shorter and easier.

I’ve been asked about our contributor licensing on several occasions, such as back in July, at MySQL Camp in Bangalore, India, as Parvesh mentioned in his blog.

The MySQL Contributor License Agreement (CLA) was an agreement that we asked patch and feature contributors to sign in order to allow us to use their contributions in MySQL Server, which is licensed both under GPL and under our commercial license. The CLA required that the contributors transfer the copyright of their code to MySQL, while of course retaining a perpetual license to use their code in any way they wanted.

Some of our community members objected to having to transfer the copyright to MySQL. And we took it as our homework to double and triple check whether we really need that strong rights from a legal perspective, when Sun could do with the more light-weight SCA (Sun Contributor Agreement). I’m happy to note that this double-and-triple checking is completed, and we’re going to the simpler and clearer SCA. Moreover, the SCA guarantees that your contribution will always be made available as open source. Not that we ever had the intention of revoking that, but I’m sure the contributors will appreciate this guarantee in the SCA.

The whole MySQL Community Team and the MySQL Entineering Team hope that this news is greeted warmly by the greater contributor community. I encourage further feedback as to how we can continue to remove barriers to our community and best collaborate and encourage an “Architecture of Participation”.

You can find information about the Sun Contributor Agreement and general
information about the contributor process online at the Contribute section of the MySQL Forge
and take a look at the SCA on Sun’s website.

In addition, as a contributor, you can choose to digitally sign the SCA via the MySQL Forge’s online contribution system.

Do note that those who already have signed the CLA need to submit the SCA form, if they want their future contributions be covered by the SCA.

To be specific: For those contributors who previously signed the MySQL Contributor License Agreement, your contributions will continue to be governed under the CLA. If you wish to instead have your contributions covered under the new Sun Contributor Agreement (recommended) we encourage you to resubmit under the online SCA form and your contributions will then be covered under the SCA.

Thanks to Jay Pipes for driving this CLA-to-SCA process!

Links:

  • Contributing to MySQL: http://forge.mysql.com/contribute/index.php
  • Sun’s SCA: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp
  • Signing the SCA: http://forge.mysql.com/contribute/cla.php?action=add

Posted in Architecture of Participation, GPL, Licensing, MySQL | 4 Comments »

Football galore — Inter using MySQL 5.1

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Within minutes after Finland was just about to win 3:2 over Germany in the football world championship qualifications (but it ended 3:3), I got a bit of consolation for myself, my dual-citizenship son cheering for Finland, and my fellow countrymen using MySQL:

We have the next MySQL 5.1 Use Case article live, and it’s about FC Inter Milan. No Finns playing there (but stars such as Ibrahimovic, Materazzi, Luis Figo, and Adriano). And, from a MySQL perspective, the interesting point is that FC Inter Milan is using both MySQL 5.1 Partitioning and the Event Scheduler in an innovative way.


Thanks Corrado Pandiani for the story — let’s hope your good Use Case inspires others!

Links:

  • FC Inter Milan Using MySQL 5.1 Partitioning and Event Scheduler: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/pandiani-use-case.html
  • The MySQL 5.1 Use Case competition: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.1-use-case-competition.html
  • FC Inter Milan: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter
  • Finland-Germany 3:3: http://svenska.yle.fi/nyheter/artikel.php?id=138742

Posted in Architecture of Participation, MySQL, Use cases | 3 Comments »

MySQL University Session on OpenSolaris Web Stack — 11 Sep 2008

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Tomorrow, there’s a particularly interesting MySQL University session coming up: The OpenSolaris Web Stack.

This session is presented by key experts outside the Database Group, but inside Sun:

  • Jyri Virkki, lead for OpenSolaris Web Stack community, Sun Microsystems
  • Murthy Chintalapati, Web Stack development, Sr Engineering Manager, Sun Microsystems

For practical reasons, this session happens three hours later than normal. To decipher that into a timezone which may be familiar to you, this means 9:00 PST / 16:00 UTC / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET.

Abstract:

OpenSolaris Web Stack is an OpenSolaris project and community building an integrated stack of popular open source web tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP and Ruby On Rails optimized for Solaris platform. This session introduces OpenSolaris Web Stack, its status and future development including addition of newer technologies such as lighttpd, Varnish etc., as well as the ease of use features for developers and deployers. We will also be discussing an experimental web stack IPS package repository and it could be leveraged to build and make available popular end user applications such as Drupal.

You don’t have to register, but it certainly is appreciated if you do so, by filling in your name on the session Wiki page. That Wiki page also contains a section to post questions. Please use it!

Those planning to attend a MySQL University session for the very first time should probably read the instructions for attendees.

Finally, you may want to take a look at the complete list of upcoming University sessions.
Links:

  • Session Page on Forge Wiki: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/OpenSolaris_Web_Stack
  • MySQL University home page: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University
  • Upcoming MySQL University Sessions: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions
  • Instructions for MySQL University Attendees: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Instructions_for_Attendees
  • OpenSolaris Project home page: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/

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Call for Papers for MySQL Conference — by 22 Oct 2008

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Innovation Everywhere! That’s the motto of the MySQL Conference & Expo 20-23 April 2009, in Santa Clara.
MySQL Conference Call for Papers
If April next year sounds like the distant future to you, then you’re evidently not planning to be a presenter. Since if you do plan to present, there’s a very close date relevant for you: 22 October 2008. That’s when the Call for Papers closes.

If you’re an innocent bystander and don’t plan on presenting, you may still enjoy lurking at the MySQL Conference Website, for instance looking at some of the full-length keynote videos already posted from the 2008 conference.

On the other hand, if you’re serious about presenting, there are three blog entries to start from, beyond the Call for Participation itself:

  • Baron Schwartz’s “How to get your session accepted to MySQL Conference“. OK, so his header says 2008, but the tips are as valid as ever: Be different. Be specific. Be advanced. Be basic. Be hoarse. Be credible. Be free!
  • Colin Charles’s List of 10. A similar list as Baron’s. Read it with care, as Colin’s our Program Chair for 2009!
  • Giuseppe Maxia’s How to get your proposal accepted to the MySQL Users Conference 2009. This is updated for 2009. Approaching the same topic as Baron and Colin, I like Giuseppe’s tips:
    1. Make sure you know the subject you propose.
    2. Always assume that someone else has proposed the same topic.
    3. A good abstract is not too short.
    4. A good abstract is not too long.
    5. Don’t even try to advertise your company in a proposal.
    6. Read the posts by Baron and Colin again.

Finally, do note a point that Giuseppe makes: We will accept some proposals conditionally. If that happens, we will inform the authors that we need more material before the final acceptance. If the material is not provided, we replace the session with some other proposal. This is the most fair way we could think of to give everybody an equal chance to compete on merits when it comes to the final choices!

Looking forward to your proposals, and to meeting with you at the MySQL UC in a bit more than half a year!

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MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition — until end of September!

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

We timed our Use Case Competition to coincide with summer holidays, and are now prolonging the duration of the Use Case Competition with one month, until 30 September 2008.

To recap, here’s the original posting (with an updated deadline):

With 5.1 having officially been in Release Candidate status since September 2007 and soon approaching GA status, the MySQL Community Team launches a competition for the users of new features of MySQL 5.1:

Submit your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report to community(at)mysql.com by 30 September 2008 and have a chance of winning one of our prizes:

  • 1st-3rd prize: A MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 Pass, including a dinner with MySQL co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius
  • 4th-10th prize: MySQL Community Contributor T-shirts
  • 11th-20th prize: A Sakila mascot (MySQL’s pet dolphin)

You may phrase your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report freely, but the more colour you give it, the better your chances of winning.

By submitting the report, you also volunteer for appearing in our upcoming Use Case articles. We will consider any data you submit in your Use Case Report as public and quotable in our reports. However, you may ask us to anonymise certain aspects of your use case, should you otherwise not be able to participate in our competition.

This is the desired format of your submissions:

From: <you>
To: Community(at)mysql.com
Cc: <any of your colleagues you wish to inform>
Subject: MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report: <Feature> / <App Name>

MySQL Community Team,

At <company/organisation> we've used <new 5.1 feature> since <date>.

We're now on MySQL 5.1.<n> and we started development using
<new 5.1 feature> with MySQL.5.1.<m>.


Purpose of our appication:

Reason we need <new 5.1 feature>:

Development environment, OS, language:

Deployment environment, OS, hardware:

Relevant metrics on size/type of application:

Our comment on how <new 5.1 feature> meets our needs:
- comments on usability of feature
- comments on clarity of documentation
- comments on performance
- comments on bugs encountered [1]

Our greetings to the MySQL Engineering Team:

Name and email of submitter / developer:

Name of organisation:

Geographic location (city, country):

MySQL Enterprise customer: (YES/NO)

[1] If you’ve found bugs, then please follow our bug reporting instructions and share bug numbers from bugs.mysql.com in your use case report.

We’re looking for Use Cases on all new MySQL 5.1 features, but especially on

  • Partitioning: Doc * Forum * Articles JonS & PeterG, RobinS, RS2, Giuseppe
  • Row-Based Replication: Doc * Forum
  • Event Scheduler: Doc * Forum
  • Logs on demand / Table logging: Doc * Forum * Article Giuseppe
  • Plugin API: Doc
  • XML functions: Doc * Article: Bar & PeterG
  • but also other improvements: Doc *Article Jay

Links:

  • MySQL 5.1 Article Recap: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.1-recap.html

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