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A bunch of MySQL/Sun engineers at Software Freedom Day
About 250 MySQL/Sun engineers are meeting in Riga, Latvia, for the annual internal MySQL Developers Meeting. 250 sounds like a large number. And a group picture is quite impressive.
Today is Software Freedom Day, which is organized at the local university, and includes talks by Mark Callaghan (Google), Mårten Mickos (MySQL), Domas Mituzas (Wikimedia Foundation).
The full program also mentions free beer, which is an irresistible combination!
Software Freedom Day in Riga: Superstars galore
Tomorrow (Saturday, September 20 2008) is Software Freedom Day, and we’re taking Latvia by storm! We’re hosting it at the University of Latvia, and we have an awesome schedule.
Why awesome? Because we have exciting speakers like you wouldn’t believe.
- Mårten Mickos, former CEO MySQL AB, current SVP Database Group, Sun Microsystems
- Kaj Arno, VP Community, Database Group, Sun Microsystems
- Mark Callaghan, Google Inc - he’ll be talking about running a database when your business depends on it - very cool stuff
- Domas Mituzas, Wikimedia Foundation and Sun Database Group Support Engineer
There are many, many more, but just the list above is pretty impressive if you ask me.
There is to be free lunch at the university, and in the evening at 7.30pm, there is to be free buffet dinner and beer at the Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel. Come unwind with the rest of the Sun Database Group!
So, if you’re currently not in Riga, Latvia, consider coming. Take a flight in, or if you’re in Finland, there’s a ferry; if you’re in Estonia, there’s a train; and if you’re in Lithuania, there’s a bus!
As an aside, I find it funny, that I have traditionally never been in my own country when there has been a Software Freedom Day. Last year I was in Beijing, China delivering a speech on MySQL. This year, I’m in Riga, Latvia, with the rest of the Sun Database Group for our yearly developer’s meeting.
Marten Mickos at the Software Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia
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Mårten Mickos, SVP of Sun Database Group, will speak on MySQL as the platform for the web economy at the Software Freedom Day at the University of Latvia. The program of the event includes sessions on several open source matters, and a practical workshop on MySQL performance tuning. |
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Workshop and prize at Software Freedom Day
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During MySQL/Sun developers meeting in Riga, Latvia, we will celebrate the Software Freedom Day in cooperation with the University of Latvia and other organizations. One of the events taking place will be a workshop on MySQL optimization, held at the Linux Center computer lab at the University, under the supervision of Jay Pipes, one of the major experts in MySQL performance tuning. |
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The best performer at the workshop will be awarded a very appropriate prize. A copy of High Performance MySQL, second edition. Registrations for the workshop hare handled by the Linux Center. During the workshop, there will be practical exercises of performance tuning, covering best practices and advanced features of MySQL. |
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250 Sun/MySQL engineers at Software Freedom Day in Riga
The Software Freedom Day 2008 is approaching. The event will take place wherever you want. If you are interested, just register a team, gather a few friends, and start organizing that in your street, at a local pub, in your university, or wherever you see fit.
MySQL people are very conscious about open source, and we decided to participate to the event somehow. For starters, Sun is a sponsor, and that is a good sign that we care. But we need also to make our presence known. So the initial plan was that every Sun community would encourage its members to create a local Software Freedom Day team and participate.
However, on September 20, the designated day, 250 Sun/MySQL engineers will be in Riga, Latvia, in the middle of our annual developers meeting.
Not a problem. Since we're there, we can celebrate abroad. We have a culture of working from home and while traveling, so an event away from home does not scare us. We got in contact with the local communities, and organized a team in cooperation with
- The University of Latvia
- The Latvian Open Source Association
- The Latvian Linux Center
- The Linux Fund
- The Latvian Open Technology Association
It's a Latvian event, with a distinct international flavor. We will gladly provide the speakers necessary to the event, and the locals will inject their enthusiasm. In the evening, a buffet will combine free software and free beer in a well tested combination.
A special thanks to Leo Truk
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Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
FSF clarifies its position on patent litigation
Q. When is a program not a program? A. When it is all the works ever licensed under GPLv3. Via the Software Freedom Law Center comes news that the Free Software Foundation has published a document clarifying its position on patent litigation related to the GPLv3 - specifically what constitutes a program under the GPLv3 for the purposes of patent infringement claims.
According to section 10, paragraph 3 of the GPLv3:
“[Y]ou may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.”
The new FSF document clarifies that in this instance the term “program” refers to a specific work that is licensed under the GPLv3, rather than all work licensed under the GPLv3.
“‘The Program’ cannot mean ‘all the works ever licensed under GPLv3′; that interpretation makes no sense, because ‘the Program’ is singular: those many different programs do not constitute one program,” states the FSF in its new document. “It does not speak to the situation in which a party who is a licensee of GPLv3-covered program A, but not of unrelated GPLv3-covered program B, initiates litigation accusing program B of patent infringement.”
If this sounds like the FSF has passed up on an opportunity to reduce patent infringement claims related to GPLv3 software you would be right, but as it goes on to explain, it has done so to avoid the use of broad patent retaliation.
“Since software patents pose an unjust threat to all software developers, all software distributors, and all software users, we would abolish them if we could. Indeed, we campaign to do so. But we think it would have been self-defeating to make the license conditions for any one GPL-covered program go so far as to require a promise to never attack any GPL-covered program.”
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How to Misunderstand Free Software
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