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FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom – call for participation

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in
Brussels.

The MySQL Devroom aims to provide a dedicated space for presentations covering the most popular open source database and celebrate the 30th anniversary of MySQL.

Key dates

  • Proposals can be submitted by October the 30th, 2024
  • Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Brussels time
  • Announcement of the selection committee: 20th of November 2024
  • Announcement of selected talks: 15th of December 2024
  • Conference dates: 1 & 2 February 2025
  • MySQL devroom date: Sunday February 2nd, 2025 afternoon (second half)

Practical

General details

  • The default duration for talks is 25 minutes including discussion (20 + 5).
  • If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don’t! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track.
  • There will be a fringe event, the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days (January 30 and 31), and submitted talks may also be accepted for this event.
  • The MySQL devroom is subject to the same code of conduct as FOSDEM (see below).

For accepted talks

  • You will receive an email to tell you that we accept your proposal
  • Expect additional emails with more instructions

For rejected talks

  • As you can see the amount of tracks is minimal, however, rejected talks have a chance to be selected for the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days.
  • In any case, you will receive an email.

Desirable topics

The MySQL devroom aims to host talks about MySQL and connected projects.

The talks can cover the following subjects:

  • Developer talks (developer using MySQL)
  • Developer talks (developer hacking MySQL)
  • Ops and DBA talks
  • Tooling around MySQL

Marketing or closed source software talks won’t be accepted. Keep in mind FOSDEM’s spirit
when submitting a session. “Hackier is better” ;)

Submit a talk

The Pretalx system will be open for applications from October the 30th, 2024.

Visit the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website (see account creation below).

Your submission must include the following information:

  • The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)
  • Select “MySQL” as the track
  • Select “Talk” event type
  • A short abstract of one paragraph
  • A longer description if you wish to do so
  • Links to related websites / blogs / github / …

Account creation:

If you already have a Pentabarf/Pretalx account, please don’t create a new
one in Pretalx.

To reset your password, go to Pretalx front page and ask for a password reset.

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About FOSDEM

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FOSDEM 2023 MySQL & Friends Devroom – schedule

Hello MySQL enthusiasts!

We are excited to announce the schedule for the MySQL & Friends devroom at FOSDEM 2023. This year’s devroom will feature a diverse lineup of talks and presentations focused on MySQL.

The program is still in draft form as we await confirmation of accepted speakers.

We encourage you to mark your calendars and join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative event.

In addition, don’t miss the chance to extend your stay in Belgium and participate to the preFOSDEM MySQL Days that will take place on 2nd and 3rd February 2023. Registration here.

Sunday, Feb 5th

TitleSpeakerStart
A journey to MySQL in K8sElisa Usai13:10
Deep Dive into MySQL Query PerformancePeter Zaitsev13:40
Configuring and limiting MySQL memory usageNorvald H. Ryeng14:10
Life of a Query in Vitess – Impersonating a monolithic databaseHarshit Gangal14:40
On the road to managed databases – Adapt your Galera cluster setup to your needs using ProxySQLMykola Marzhan15:10
Lower your isolation level with ProxySQLJavier Jaramago Fernández & René Cannaò15:40
Extending MySQL with component infrastructure – Will MySQL be out of space soon ?Frédéric Descamps16:10
Extended observability to agentless monitoring on MySQL using ProcFS UDF pluginVinicius Grippa16:40

We tried to have a wide range of popular topics within the limits of available slots and not forgetting the spirit of FOSDEM which is the right place to promote the development and the hacking mindset.

See you in February in Brussels, Belgium !

FOSDEM 2023 MySQL Devroom – extra info

Hi all,

As you know the CfP for the devroom has been open and you may have noticed that we have only half a day that we also need to share.

Therefore, we will have only 4 sessions and they should look like this:

We didn’t decide yet which of the two colors will be for which project.

Due to the very low number of sessions, we will not attempt to compose a selection committee.

Managing a committee to find the candidates, collect their decisions, communicate and especially ask for votes (and yes often these are very busy people) is a time consuming process.

For the committee, reviewing the proposed sessions is a lengthy procedure and agreeing on 16 sessions is already very complicated so only for 4…

However, you may have also noticed that there will be two pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. We will check the proposed FOSDEM MySQL Devroom session to see if there is any content that could be presented at these pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. I will then contact the speakers and invite them.

Don’t forget to submit inspiring sessions, we look forward to reading them !

See you soon in Belgium !

FOSDEM 2023 MariaDB, MySQL and Friends Devroom – Call for Papers

Now that FOSDEM is again going to held in-person event, MariaDB and MySQL will once again have a devroom.

FOSDEM 2023 will take place on Sat 4 – Sun 5 February 2023.

However, there are some changes in the organization. Each project will be responsible for its track, so we will divide the devroom into two sub-tracks.

For the convenience of the speakers and participants, we will not mix the two sub-tracks.

You will have the possibility to follow the track you are interested in, or of course both

The other big change is that the devroom is only half a day. This will make talk selection
very complicated as MariaDB and MySQL will only have 4 sessions each !

The MariaDB, MySQL & Friends devroom will be held for half a day, probably on Sunday afternoon.

The MariaDB track will also be holding a virtual event, which will take place outside of the physical devroom times. This will be similar to last year, where a video presentation will have to be prepared well in advance of the physical event.

Key Dates

  • Wed 7 December: Submission deadline
  • Thu 15 December: Announcement of selected talks
  • Sat 4 to Sun 5 February: Conference date

The Call for Paper is now open and, as usual Pentabarf is the platform to use to submit your talks: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23.

Please select the track”MariaDB, MySQL and friends devroom” and ensure you include the following
information when submitting your proposal:

SectionFieldNotes
PersonName(s)Your first, last and public names.
PersonAbstractA short bio.
PersonPhotoPlease provide a photo.
EventEvent TitleThis is the title of your talk – please be descriptive to encourage attendance.
EventAbstractThe description of your talk.
EventSubmission notesIf you submit for “MariaDB devroom“, “MySQL Devroom” (you can set both)
EventDurationPlease set the length of your talk to 20 min !
EventOn-campus?
Online?
Set if you apply for an on-campus in person session in Brussels
Set if you apply for a virtual pre-recorded session

Don’t forget that the deadline to submission is Wed 7 December.

Code of Conduct

Please read FOSDEM’s Code of Conduct.

If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please contact us and we will do our best to assist you.

We hope to see you in Brussels very soon !

FOSDEM 2022 MySQL devroom schedule updated !

Hello,

Due to a complete misunderstanding about the available slots, FOSDEM’s organization had to remove 2 talks from the previous planned agenda.

However, we didn’t want to announce to previously accepted speakers that their talks were cancelled ! Therefore, we decided, with FOSDEM’s approval, to extend the FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom, opening our room on Saturday afternoon.

Two talks were then moved to Saturday and the two backup talks were immediately added to the schedule !

More work for us and our speakers but more pleasure for all the MySQL fans !

Don’t miss FOSDEM MySQL Devroom’s 2022 edition, free online conference.

Here is the new updated schedule (the official one is available here):

Saturday, Feb 5th

TitleSpeakerStart
Encrypting binary (and relay) logs in MySQLMatthias C14:00
Hash join in MySQL 8.0Øystein Grøvlen14:30
ProxySQL 2021 Dev SubmitJavier Jaramago Fernández15:00
Backup/Restore tools performance comparisonVinicius Grippa, Jean Da Silva11:00

Sunday, Feb 6th

TitleSpeakerStart
Flame Graphs for MySQL DBAsValerii Kravchuk10:00
The relational model in the modern development ageShlomi Noach10:30
ProxySQL Cluster: challenges and solutions to synchronizeconfigurationacross multiple decentralized cluster nodesRené Cannaò11:00
Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) Non blocking operations, what you need to know to avoid pitfallsMarco Tusa11:30
MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet – The integrated solution for disaster tolerance of InnoDB ClustersMiguel Araújo & Kenny Gryp12:00
MySQL on Kubernetes demystifiedMarco Tusa13:00
MySQL Operator for KubernetesJohannes Schlüter13:30
Newest MySQL component services features or how to make an HTTP server accessing table data in a componentJoro Kodinov14:30
MySQL 8.0: Logical Backups, Snapshots and PITR like a rockstarlefred15:10
Why your backup strategy is wrong?Pep Pla15:55
Efficient MySQL Performance – A Book in 40 MinutesDaniel Nichter16:10
MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARMPeter Zaitsev17:00
Release Note Highlights from 2021 – Recap ’23 to ’27Dave Stokes17:30

See you there, don’t miss the event online as you will have the possibility to chat and video talk to all speakers !

Happy FOSDEM !

FOSDEM 2022 MySQL devroom schedule

The schedule of the MySQL Devroom 2022 is now published: here.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk. As usual we received more submissions than available slots.

TitleSpeakerStart
Encrypting binary (and relay) logs in MySQLMatthias C9:00
Flame Graphs for MySQL DBAsValerii Kravchuk9:30
Hash join in MySQL 8.0Øystein Grøvlen10:00
The relational model in the modern development ageShlomi Noach10:30
ProxySQL Cluster: challenges and solutions to synchronizeconfigurationacross multiple decentralized cluster nodesRené Cannaò11:00
Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) Non blocking operations, what you need to know to avoid pitfallsMarco Tusa11:30
MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet – The integrated solution for disaster tolerance of InnoDB ClustersMiguel Araújo & Kenny Gryp12:00
MySQL on Kubernetes demystifiedMarco Tusa13:00
MySQL Operator for KubernetesJohannes Schlüter13:30
Newest MySQL component services features or how to make an HTTP server accessing table data in a componentJoro Kodinov14:30
MySQL 8.0: Logical Backups, Snapshots and PITR like a rockstarlefred15:10
Why your backup strategy is wrong?Pep Pla15:55
Efficient MySQL Performance – A Book in 40 MinutesDaniel Nichter16:10
MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARMPeter Zaitsev17:00
Release Note Highlights from 2021 – Recap ’23 to ’27Dave Stokes17:30

The time scheduled might still change but those are the accepted talks. We can see that backups are still a hot topic such as High Availability.

Kubernetes is also a trending topic.

Shlomi will deliver something new and we will also have a new type of talk with Daniel presenting his book on MySQL Performance.

Don’t miss FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom on February 6th.

FOSDEM 2022

Hi all, just some words to let you know that FOSDEM’22 will take place February 5th and 6th. Like last year, this 2022 edition will be an online edition.

As MySQL, we have submitted our candidature for a devroom/track. We are waiting for the approval list.

As soon as we know FOSDEM’s decision, the eventual Call-For-Papers will be opened.

Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, enjoy MySQL !

FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom Schedule

The FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom Schedule is now online.

Thank you again to all who submitted a talk and thank you the to Committee for having build such agenda.

It seems that once again, MySQL Operations and Architecture are very popular.

As you probably know already, this event will be totally online this year.

I would like to thanks the people who were able to jump after some cancellations… virtual events are not the most popular for speakers.

The MySQL Devroom will take place Sunday February 7th form 10AM to 6PM CEST.

TitleSpeakerStartEnd
25 years of MySQL – A RetrospectiveDave Stokes10:0010:20
Open Source Database Infrastructure with VitessShlomi Noach10:3010:55
From single MySQL instance to HA
The journey to InnoDB Cluster
Frédéric Descamps11:0011:25
Group Replication: Best Practices for Network DeployAníbal Pinto11:3011:55
Review of the Percona Operator from a DBA prospectiveMarco Tusa (the Grinch)12:0012:25
MySQL Router REST APIFrédéric Descamps12:3012:55

Better User Management under MySQL 8.0
Dave Stokes13:0013:25
Running MySQL on ARMKrunal Bauskar13:3013:55
Making MySQL-8.0 XA transaction processing crash safe
The key to use MySQL as storage nodes for distributed databases
Wei Zhao14:0014:25
Passing query attributes through the MySQL protocol
Extension to the wire format to allow data/metadata
Joro Kodinov14:3014:55
Linux /proc filesystem for MySQL DBAs
Sampling /proc content for troubleshooting
Valerii Kravchuk15:0015:20
Rewrite Your Complex MySQL Queries for Better PerformanceØystein Grøvlen15:3015:55
Automatic Asynchronous Replication Connection FailoverHemant Dangi16:0016:25
Sure you can run your database in kubernetes
Successfully run your MySQL NDB Cluster in kubernetes
Bernd Ocklin16:3016:55
18 Things To Do When You Have a MySQL BottleneckPeter Zaitsev17:0017:25
Hitchhiker’s Guide to MySQL
Don’t panic.
Liz van Dijk17:3017:55

FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom CfP is now open!

As you already read, MySQL Devroom will be present during FOSDEM’21. The selection committee has been announced yesterday and
today we open the Call for Paper !

This event is a real success story for the MySQL ecosystem; the content, the speakers and the attendees are growing every year.

The MySQL Developer room focuses on MySQL and its Ecosystem.

It will run on Sunday 7th February.

New rules / What changes since last year:

  • For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online.
  • The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET).
  • Talks will be pre-recorded, and streamed during the event – Before proposing a session, please make sure you will have the facilities (camera, microphone, network) and time to prepare, upload and review a recording during the first two weeks of January if your proposal is accepted.
  • Q&A session will be live after your talk.
  • A platform will be provided for people watching to join a common chat.
  • A platform will be provided for people watching to submit questions.

Key dates:

Because creating such event is not easy, because of the indecisive situation, etc… we are now bound by time.

  • Submission deadline: 22nd December 2020
  • Announcement of selected talks: 31st December 2020
  • Submission of recorded talks: Sunday, January 17th 2021
  • Devroom date: Sunday 7th February 2021

How to submit:

For this edition, we decided to have a mix of sessions. We are accepting talks of 15, 25 and 40 minutes, with time for questions afterward. The Q&A session will be live. Please, don’t forget to specify the duration in your submission.

You might be aware that the usual standard length for MySQL Devroom is 25 minutes and the majority of accepted talks will certainly
be in that range but we are open to exception (explain why in your submission).

All submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool:
penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21

While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract, some information about yourself (eg. name, bio, photo, contact information, but remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf).

It’s very important that you select the right track “MySQL devroom” and don’t forget to specify the duration.

And as usual, marketing and sales speeches are not welcome. Please focus on the engineering side, the operations and of course the developers. We want to hear how you are hacking MySQL and develop around it !

Recording of Talks:

The talks in the MySQL developer room as in other rooms must be pre-recorded.

Speakers have to submit a recording of their talk to the devroom in Pentabarf (if the talk is accepted and when recorded, not during the proposal) and be available for Q&A during the event.

By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

In the “Submission notes” field in Pentabarf, please indicate that you agree to the publications.

For example: “If my speech is accepted for FOSDEM MySQL Devroom, I agree to the publication of my recordings, slides provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Sincerely, Name”.

Thank you, and see you soon virtually during FOSDEM 2021 ! Don’t wait too much and submit as soon as possible.

FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom: the Committee

The MySQL Devroom is pleased to announce the committee that will decide on the talks to be presented for this totally new format of the next FOSDEM edition. Indeed, if you are not yet aware of it, FOSDEM 2021 will be an online event. Every year we are overwhelmed with submissions and it’s the committee that has the thankless task of deciding on the final selections and agenda.

Every year, we try to have a mix of experienced members knowing the process of the devroom talks rating and expect them to mentor the new members.

This year’s committee members are:

Let me introduce them (not sure it’s needed ;-) ) and as usual, don’t hesitate to thank them (this year a virtual thank has the same value as a drink at FOSDEM’s bar).

Elisa Usai

Elisa is an Italian living in the French speaking part of Switzerland since 2010. She has more than 12 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Her expertise includes MySQL and Oracle technologies as well as monitoring solutions. She actually works for dbi services as Delivery Manager and Consultant.
Elisa is MySQL 5.7 OCP certified.
She is active in the Oracle community, she participates as a speaker to conferences and events. Elisa is a member of the ITOUG board and Oracle ACE Associate.

Gabriela D’Ávila Ferrara

Gabi is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and a passionate Software Engineer. She likes simplifying complex systems, and believes abstractions are best when they can be understood in a real life example. She’s driven to go beyond DBA lingo to make database and storage technology more accessible to software developers.

Liz Van Dijk

Coming from a long-term MySQL background, Liz is currently focused on helping businesses scale horizontally with Vitess as a Solution Architect at PlanetScale. Though her roots are in tech, her true passion is understanding the drive and motivations behind systems and people alike.
Lizz is an optimizer at heart, always focused on gaining deeper understanding and re-evaluating her knowledge and place.

Silvia Botros

Silvia is a Software Architect at Twilio.
She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software.
Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping teams at Twilio build more resilient software, she is busy training her little replicas on also breaking computers and trolling her friends on Twitter.

Miguel Araújo

Miguel is a Principal Software Engineer on the MySQL Team, at Oracle.
He’s the Tech Lead of the AdminAPI, core component of MySQL InnoDB Cluster, at the MySQL Shell team.
In the past, he has worked on different projects and teams, mostly related to Middleware and High-Availability.
He has a Computer Science Engineering degree and Master’s degree, from the University of Minho, Portugal, where he was also a researcher.
His backgrounds are on distributed systems, scalability, database replication and high-availability.
He is based in Portugal.

Marcos Albe

After 12 years working as a developer for local and remote firms, Marcos decided to pursuit true love and become full time DBA.
He has been doing MySQL Support at Percona for the past 10+ years, providing advise on anything-MySQL and in-depth performance analysis to Inc.50 firms as well as startups with explosive growth rates.
Besides his technology knowledge, Marcos is also appreciated for his good mood and his sense of partying.
He is an expert of BBQ in the wilderness.

Markus Winand

As the SQL Renaissance Ambassador, it is Markus Winand‘s mission to make developers aware of the evolution of SQL in the 21st century.
His book “SQL Performance Explained” has been published in five languages and can be read online free of charge at use-the-index-luke.com.
His next book is currently in the works and can already be read online as it’s being written (modern-sql.com).
Markus is available as a trainer, speaker and consultant for all companies and developers interested in SQL.

Giuseppe Maxia

Giuseppe aka Datacharmer, is a Software Explorer and creator of tools.
Formerly at MySQL AB, and then through acquisitions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, and currently at VMware through a merge.
Giuseppe is an active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast.
During the past decades he has worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, software development, quality assurance, and system administration.
Fluent in Italian, English, Go, Spanish, SQL, Bash, and a good speaker of C, French, and Perl.
He works in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

Thank you !

Once again, thank you to all the Committee to have started this new journey to FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom.

Stay tuned, the Call for Paper will be announced shortly !