[advocacy-discuss] Conference Season Cometh: MySQL Users Conf, JavaOne, CommunityOne, etc.

[Ben Rockwood]

The Conference season is upon us again.  I normally consider the MySQL 
Users Conference the my first show of the year (my calender is based on 
Bay Area confs only). 

Where are we at on a variety of the upcoming events?  I'll take them one 
by one to make it easy to reply to:

MySQL Users Conference: This is next month, I'm a speaker this year 
actually.  For the last 2-3 years I've been in the booth and hope to be 
again this year talking about the joys of MySQL & Co. on OpenSolaris.  I 
need to get in touch with the booth crew and coordinate this years actives.

CommunityOne: The call for papers went out, but I didn't see anyone pick 
up the ball on organizing for the show.  Perhaps this happened and I 
just missed it all.  Will OpenSolaris have representation this year?  
Who's leading that effort?

JavaOne: Like MySQL I've been in the booth for the last couple years 
showing off OpenSolaris and plan to again this year.  Each year there 
has been more OpenSolaris representation and I'm curious to know whats 
on the lineup this year.

LinuxWorld: This normally marks the end of the conference season, but 
getting a booth can be rough if we wait to long.  Yet again I'd like to 
have a presence in the .Org pavilion if SMI isn't present.  Any other 
interest is welcome.

OSCON: Again, this is a ways out, but good to coordinate on early.  Any 
brewings yet?

Web2.0: I'm not planning anything for this event.  Typically a snooty 
managerial crowd not well suited to meaty topics, and thus off my 
radar.  If anyone wants to organize something I'll assist and participate.

Velocity2.0: This is a (to my knowledge) new conference happening in the 
Bay Area (http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2008/public/content/home).  This 
is the Web Performance and Operations Conference, and we ABSOLUTELY MUST 
BE THERE!  No one can corner that conference like OpenSolaris can.  I'm 
happy to bring in Joyent resources given that this is our bread and 
butter and its all happening on OpenSolaris.  If something is lined up, 
I want to get the skinny ASAP, if its not on our radar we need to 
organize something pronto.

I'm forgetting a couple I'm sure.  Debatable shows include almost any of 
the database shows, including OracleWorld, etc.


Feel free to comment on any of the above shows.  Lets get sync'ed up and 
organized for the upcoming shows!  We've got more to talk about every 
day.  Viva OpenSolaris!!

benr.


Disclaimer: All references to "OpenSolaris" regard the OpenSolaris 
Community and Project, not Indiana directly or indirectly.