Fun times at MySQL UC and Drizzle Developer Day 09
I’m writing this entry on my way back to Tokyo from Narita. So, I was in the US all week for MySQL UC, Percona Performance Conference and the Drizzle Developer Day. It was great to meet new people and also catch up with developer friends from all over the world. These events are great excuse to bring together folks that work together online and receive the free beers that were promised on IRC. Looking back, the week just flew! I can’t believe I’m back in Japan already.
What wasn’t pleasant however was Drizzle being introduced as “MySQL Drizzle” and described as MySQL’s technology incubator at the opening keynote. The truth is, Drizzle is a community driven project that is not affiliated with any commercial organization. The project is shepherded by the community and that is the whole point of our model. Jay and Baron has expressed this on their blogs too:
Guess there is no point in getting worked up about this so I will say no more.
Drizzle developer day turned out to be a great success with over 60 developers (including new developers) turning up. We covered wide variety of topics from “how to download bzr” for all levels of contributors which I thought was nice. Why? well this means that everyone has something to do and it creates a welcoming atmosphere. As a result, it makes the event active. Here are some photos I uploaded to flickr in the last few minutes I had in the US. I’ll get more up there asap.
Compared to these stimulating events and the discussions we had, Oracle’s acquisition tale that many people seemed to like talking about at the conference breakfast/lunch/boozing was uninteresting.
