As many of you already know, MySQL is turning 30 this year! The official date is May 23.
During the entire calendar year, we will celebrate this milestone all around the globe.
We started in Belgium with the first event of the year: preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days.
Take a look at this incredible journey that started 30 years ago in 1995:
More information in these two previous blog posts:
Here are some pictures of the first celebration with members of the MySQL Team, customers, and community members, including Oracle ACEs for MySQL and Rockstars:
The next main celebrations will be in Taipei on February 18, in Japan on March 25, combined with the 25th-year celebration of MyNA, and in California for the MySQL & HeatWave Summit on April 22-23.
The call for participation for the California Summit is still open until February 15th, so don't waste time—submit!
Please register if you want to attend the celebration and meet customers, community members, and our team (engineers, product managers, community managers, ...).
Stay tuned to the MySQL Event page for the other proposed celebrations.
During these events, you may have the chance to collect this incredible collector Sakila:
On behalf of the MySQL Community Team, Happy Birthday MySQL!
Frederic Descamps
MySQL Community Manager
lefred has been consulting OpenSource and MySQL for almost 20 years. After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He will then opt for a career in the world of open-source by joining one of the first Belgian start-up dedicated 100% to free projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona, one of the leading MySQL-based specialists. He decided to join the MySQL Community Team in 2016 as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. Frédéric is also a regular speaker of OpenSource Conferences. His blog mostly dedicated to MySQL is https://lefred.be Fred is also the devoted father of three adorable daughters: Wilhelmine, Héloïse & Barbara.
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