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Are you a member of a local Linux User Group? Or a MySQL User Group? Or any other group that is related to open source software? Have you heard of the Software Freedom Day yet? This is a good opportunity to spread the word and showcase what OSS is all about to a wider audience. Some quotes from their Software Freedom Day website:

Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September.
Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in.
Go along to your local event or start your own event and meet a wide range of people, all working together to help ensure our freedoms are maintained by the technologies of tomorrow. Forming a Local SFD Team can be a fun, effective community building experience for your local user group and community.
Software Freedom Day is an outreach day where you can inspire newcomers with the values and quality of Free Software and communicate the broader issues of Software Freedom through a variety of activities of your choice. Is there something locally relevant to your country or region that you need to express? Is there some great local success story you want to tell? Software Freedom Day is your chance to stand united with the entire Free Software world with what you care about. Freedom.

Events will take place all over the world, organized by volunteers and local user groups. If you are interested to participate, here are some ideas and instructions:

• Instructions for forming a local team
• Registering your team on the Software Freedom Day site

If you are new to MySQL and would like to get an overview about some best practices for securing a MySQL server and some commonly used backup techniques, consider attending this webinar (in german), held by yours truly. It will take place this Tuesday (2008-06-17) at 15:00 CEST - participation is free of charge! This is my first attempt to perform a webinar, I usually give talks in front of a live audience... Let's see how it goes.

I have not been at CeBit for quite a while, but this year I will be there as a regular visitor this Thursday (6th of March). If you would like to meet with me, please send me an email or ping me via IM/Skype! I look forward to walking around the hallways, visiting my new employer's booth and finding out what other Open Source presences and activities there will be.

Like in the years before, I (and some other colleagues from MySQL) will be attending FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels, Belgium on February 23rd and 24th.

The schedule is packed as usual and lists several MySQL-related topics and sessions:

• Main tracks: Unicoding With PHP 6 by Andrei Zmievski and the talk about CakePHP by Garrett J Woodworth are certainly relevant for web developers using PHP.
• Lightning talks: Jan Kneschke will speak about MySQL Proxy (not yet listed in the schedule, but likely between 15-16 o'clock on Sunday). Other sessions with MySQL relevance/relations are Kettle: extracting, transforming and loading data by Matt Casters and Alfresco: fresh document management approach by Philippe Dubois.
• DevRooms: The Drupal people have set up a DevRoom with a session track - Kris Buytaert will talk about Drupal and MySQL High Availability. Another DevRoom worth visiting will be the one organized by the Belgian Ruby User Group - they set up a Ruby on Rails Developer Room. My friends from the openSUSE project also have a great number of sessions lined up for their openSUSE Developer Room: several talks about the Build Service (proudly powered by MySQL) and a session about the openSUSE redirector (a tool to set up and manage a content delivery network with MySQL) by Peter Poeml.

If you also plan to attend, please ping me if you would like to meet!

In addition to the presentations and tutorials, there will also be an Expo, where partner companies will exhibit their products related to MySQL. You will notice a number of well-known names in the industry there, e.g. hardware vendors like Dell, Dolphin Interconnect, HP or Sun as well as software companies like Alfresco, BitRock, Google, Pentaho, Red Hat and many more.

• Bugzilla is an open source bug tracker used by thousands of businesses to track defects and enhancements. Bugzilla, the standard in open source bug tracking, is a versatile and powerful web based system with a minimal footprint, proven to support groups of any size from small projects to multinational enterprises.
• dotProject is a Web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, a calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions, and themes. It is translated into 17 languages and has a modular design that allows extra modules (such as time sheets and inventory) to be added in easily.
• Drupal is a powerful, scalable and full-featured content management system that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize content and run an online community. Tens of thousands of people and organizations use Drupal to power scores of different web sites. A large, healthy and diverse community of developers, users and consultants drives a rapid pace of innovation and a wide variety of feature development.
• Eventum is user friendly and extensible issue tracking software from MySQL that can be used by a support department to track incoming technical support requests, a software development team to quickly organize tasks and bugs or anyone else looking to organize their work.
• HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface for developers using MySQL, allowing simple management of their databases and tables. Previously known as MySQL-Front, the name has been switched in 2006 by Ansgar Becker, the first developer, that put his old sources into a new open source project at SourceForge. Currently this tool is available on Windows and Linux.
• Joomla! is one of the most outstanding content management systems in the world. This is not only because of his approach of providing one of the most well structured and simple user interfaces for managing your media, text, image and other public information materials in the web. With Joomla! you are able to provide a huge information base for your professional audience as simple as you build up your own family community website. The new refactored content framework gives you the confidence that your site is based on a reliable, flexible, future proven and easy to manage plattform.
• LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 180,000 members and over 1,7000,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux radio show and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums.
• OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. Do you receive many e-mails and want to answer them with a team of agents? You're going to love the OTRS!
• Phorum, is the original PHP/MySQL message board software. Started in 1997 by Brian Moon, Phorum has been used by sites such as Zend.com and currently is the message board of choice for MySQL.com. Phorum's developers focus on speed and expandability through its flexible module system.
• phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages.
• SnapLogic is an Open Source project that enables developers to easily and rapidly integrate applications and other data sources through a Data Integration Network. SnapLogic embraces the simplicity and scalability of the Web to collapse the complexity of data integration for Internet-scale integration.
• Sphinx is fast and powerful full text search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It offers high performance, good scalability (with multi-server distributed searching), great search quality, and other advanced features such as efficient filtering, sorting and grouping. Both native search APIs and a Pluggable MySQL Storage Engine search client are available, which makes Sphinx easy to integrate into existing applications.
• WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
• XAMPP is a free software package containing the Apache web server, MySQL database and necessary tools to use the PHP and Perl programming languages. Currently, XAMPP is available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X (the X in its name could stand for any one of these operating systems).

The session grid contains a number of talks related to MySQL:

• John Paul Ashenfelter: Data Warehousing with MySQL
• Peter Zaitsev: High Performance Full Text search for Database Content
• Lars Thalmann: Being a MySQL Developer

• Marcel Molina: Ruby on Rails
• Martin von Haller Groenbaek: Workshop on Open Source Licensing for Businesses
• Open Source @ openBC: How, Why, and Where To?
• Jim Purbrick: Open Source And Second Life
• Mårten Mickos: From Europe to USA - Culture's Consequences on Open Source Communities and Businesses

My friends Theo Schlossnagle, Laura Thomson and Chris Shiflett are each presenting at ApacheCon Europe. They are each excellent presenters with solid content - I have seen Theo present at a previous ApacheCon, caught Laura at several OSCONs and finally saw Shiflett speak at the PHP Quebec conference earlier this year.

The deal is simple - sign up for any of their tutorials before the early bird deadline for the conference closes (on June 6th) and get complementary copies of some of the speaker’s book(s).

The sessions are:

• Advanced Production Troubleshooting Techniques (Theo Schlossnagle)
• Essential PHP Security (Chris Shiflett)
• PHP and MySQL Best Practices 2.0 (Laura Thomson)
• Scalable Internet Architectures (Theo Schlossnagle)

The books are:

• PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
• Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
• HTTP Developer’s Handbook by Chris Shiflett