by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Feb 20, 2020 | Percona Events, Percona Live
It’s happening! Percona Live is coming soon and our teams are hard at work finalizing the agenda. Join us for three days of collaboration, learning, and fun, with presentations and discussions on topics relevant to the development, implementation, and management... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 16, 2020 | Open Source, Percona Events
One of our favorite events in Europe every year is FOSDEM. The open source community hosts this free event each year in Brussels over the first weekend of February. Over 8,000 open source enthusiasts gather on the campus of Université Libre de Bruxelles to... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 13, 2020 | Percona Events, Percona Live
An extension to the Percona Live 2020 Call for Papers deadline has been announced, and you now have until Wednesday, January 22 to submit your papers. The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference (to give it its full name) will be taking place in Austin, Texas... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Dec 3, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Live
The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, January 22. Percona Live will be held in Austin, Texas from Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at a new venue, the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center. The CFP is... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Sep 12, 2019 | Percona Events, Percona Live
The latest Percona University event will be held in Istanbul on Friday, October 4. These are free events featuring technical presentations from Percona and guest speakers. Talks are good for anyone who uses database technologies as part of their tech stack. In other... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Sep 6, 2019 | Percona Live
Among the most widely debated topics in technology at the moment are security and data privacy. While the industry has long been aware of the threat of security breaches, recent examples have heightened concerns. Are you doing all you can to protect your data assets,... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Aug 19, 2019 | Percona Live
If you’ve been waiting to see the schedule before you commit to a ticket, wait no longer! With just a few spots to be confirmed before release, the bulk of the Percona Live Europe 2019 agenda can now be seen. We’ve said it before, but the quality of the... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Aug 7, 2019 | Percona Live
We had an amazing response to our Call for Papers for Percona Live Europe, offering talks of incredible breadth and depth. Our European open source database conference rivals its North American cousin in the number and quality of submissions, which has made it an... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jul 16, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference, Europe 2019 will have a one week extension of the call for papers. Our new close date will be Monday July 22, 2019. Any and all topics related to open source database technologies are invited.This... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | May 30, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
It was all aboard the Lone Star river boat for the 100 delegates who joined our Community Dinner. Loading took quite some time, Tom Basil attended to the guest list, and then the necessary signatures for those aboard. I’d woken at 6am to a less than favorable... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | May 29, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Events
It’s that time of year again, and we’ve just had the presentations of the MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live. A more fulsome blog post will be written for the Community Blog in the next few days about the worthy winners. Meanwhile, though, here’s... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | May 13, 2019 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Live
It’s not long now before we’ll be gathering in Austin TX for this year’s Percona Live event. It’s the only conference of its type dedicated entirely to open source databases – of all marques. From a community perspective, we have a few... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | May 1, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Last week, Oracle reported on the list of MySQL Community Contributors for 2019 and we’re proud to say that five serving Perconians made it to the list of 19 people recognized as such. Entries are nominated by the MySQL community and their nominations are... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Apr 15, 2019 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Live
Many of our regular attendees already know that the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is not all about Percona software or, indeed, all about Percona. However, with moving to a new city—Austin, TX— we have realized that it’s something we... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Feb 14, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Events
For those not familiar with it, FOSDEM is an amazing, free entry, full on celebration of open source that takes place in Brussels, Belgium every year. This year the event was held over the first weekend of February. Fringe events, such as the Pre-FOSDEM MySQL... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 21, 2019 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
We had a great response to our call for papers, thank you! However great we believe having the conference in Austin, TX will be, moving to a new area of the US is still a leap of faith until we see the numbers. So we’re thankful that so many of you continue to... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 8, 2019 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 in North America has moved to Austin, Texas: a cool place to be, and host to many big names in the tech space. Read what Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager for Oracle, has to say in favor of Austin. If you need a... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Oct 22, 2018 | MariaDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Live
For those who are looking forward to Percona Live Europe in just two weeks time—and for those yet to make up their minds—some of our presenters have shared some insight into their talks and what they’re most looking forward to themselves. Make no... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Oct 3, 2018 | Cloud, Percona Events
Percona’s latest blog poll asks how you run your database in the cloud?Join in!Are you using a fully managed service or are you self-managing your databases in the cloud? And what provider are you relying on? Perhaps you’re using more than one. Don’t... by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Aug 14, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events
Recently, we initiated a new project, the Open Source Database Community Blog. One way to think of this is as an online, year round version of the Percona Live conferences. If you have a story to tell, an experience to share, or a lesson to be learned send it along....