This September and October, Heather VanCura will meet with MySQL users, contributors, developers, DBAs, customers, and community leaders across Brazil and Europe. With more than 30 years of innovation behind it, the MySQL community is entering an important new phase. The focus is on expanding engagement, collaboration, and contributions while increasing and driving innovation and unification of the ecosystem. The tour will create opportunities to listen, share progress, and continue an important conversation about the future of MySQL: how to build a stronger, more open, and more connected community around one of the world’s most widely used open-source databases.
The MySQL community tour begins in São Paulo with a joint Java and MySQL community meetup on September 23, a keynote at IA Brazil, a session in the international track of TDC, followed by Brazil MySQL Conference on September 26. These events will bring together the Brazilian MySQL community to discuss how feedback, participation, and collaboration can help inform the future of the ecosystem. Brazil’s vibrant developer and user-group community creates an important opportunity to engage with the people who use MySQL every day, support its adoption, and encourage new contributors to participate.
The tour continues to London for the UKOUG and London MySQL Community Meetup on September 29. Hosted at the AWS London office, the meetup will bring together MySQL users, developers, DBAs, contributors, and partners for an afternoon of discussion, technical content, and networking. The program will explore community engagement, roadmap transparency, and practical ways users and contributors can help shape what comes next.
The final MySQL community stop is Amsterdam on October 8. MySQL Community Meetup Amsterdam will bring the local ecosystem together at the Oracle Amsterdam office for community updates, a technical deep dive, and discussion.
The tour will also include Community over Code in Glasgow, October 11–14, where Java and MySQL community conversations will connect with the wider open-source ecosystem. The event provides an opportunity to engage with developers, contributors, and community leaders across projects and technologies. Java, MySQL, and countless other technologies benefit when communities build relationships across user groups, universities, open-source projects, and standards organizations.
These gatherings are intended to be conversations, not simply presentations. The MySQL community is made up of application developers, DBAs, contributors, educators, customers, partners, and user-group organizers. Each brings valuable insight into what works well, what needs to improve, and where the next opportunities lie.
A central theme throughout the tour will be participation. Open source succeeds when people can see how decisions are made, understand where they can contribute, and feel connected to both the technology and one another. The goal is to continue strengthening connections between MySQL engineering and the global community, while creating clearer opportunities for feedback, collaboration, and technical contribution.
The tour also recognizes the importance of local communities. User groups and regional conferences create space to exchange practical knowledge, mentor new participants, test ideas, and build lasting relationships. They make the global MySQL ecosystem tangible and accessible in the places where people live and work. The next chapter of MySQL will be stronger when it is built with the community.
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