Software Freedom Day 2008 Riga
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[edit] Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day 2008 will take place on Saturday, 20th of September 2008. Coincidentally, the majority of MySQL Developers will be in Riga, Latvia for an internal developer meeting around this day. To make use of this opportunity, we plan to give a number of sessions and presentations (all in English) about various topics and to contribute to this global celebration of Open Source Software.
We've set up a Team Page on the Software Freedom Day web site for this event.
[edit] Organization
The venue will be the Cafeteria Conference room in the basement of the University of Latvia, Riga, which can accommodate 60-80 people.:
Raiņa bulvāris 19
Rīga, LV-1586
There will be free coffee, refreshments and cake during the breaks.
No registration needed. Free entry.
[edit] Session Schedule
Tentative schedule (45 minutes per session plus 15 minutes of Q&A)
- 11:00-12:00: Software freedom in Latvia (Leo Trukšāns - Linux Centre, Evijs Taube - LATA)
- 12:00-13:00: Running a database when your business depends on it (Mark Callaghan, Google Inc.)
- 13:00-13:30: Lunch Break / Ask the Guru your tech questions
- 13:30-14:30: MySQL in the Enterprise: Customer references, commercial offerings (Rob Young, MySQL/Sun Microsystems)
- 15:00-16:00: MySQL Community Overview: How to engage and contribute (Giuseppe Maxia, MySQL/Sun Microsystems)
- 16:15-17:15: Building the open web, (Domas Mituzas, Wikimedia Foundation)
- 17:15-18:15: MySQL - Platform for the web economy (Mårten Mickos, MySQL/Sun Microsystems)
- 19.30: Social event: Software demonstration, buffet and free beer in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel.
[edit] Workshop
Parallel to the sessions, Jay Pipes will conduct a practical workshop, at the Linux Center computer lab. The workshop will focus on MySQL performance tuning. Please contact Leo Trukšāns for registration.
The workshop will run from 11:00 to 13:00
The best performing attendee will receive a copy of High Performance MySQL, 2nd edition.
[edit] Social event
- 19.30: Social event: Software demonstration, buffet and free beer in the SAS Radisson Daugava hotel.
Hotel Address:
Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel
Kugu 24, Rīga, LV-1048, Latvia
Tel.:+371 6706 1147; Fax: +371 6706 1101
[edit] Related links
[edit] Pictures
[edit] Blog posts by individuals
- Giuseppe Maxia: A bunch of MySQL/Sun engineers at Software Freedom Day
- Colin Charles: Software Freedom Day in Riga: Superstars galore
- Giuseppe Maxia: Marten Mickos at the Software Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia
- Giuseppe Maxia: Workshop and prize at Software Freedom Day
- Giuseppe Maxia: 250 Sun/MySQL engineers at Software Freedom Day in Riga
- Lenz Grimmer: Celebrating Software Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia
- Lenz Grimmer: Supporting the Software Freedom Day
[edit] Invitations/Announcements
- Upcoming.org
- Xing.com
- http://lwn.net/Calendar/
- Qype.com
- http://linux.edu.lv/: Programmatūras brīvības dienas konference
- http://hackers.lv/: Sun/MySQL diena LU Linux centrā 20. septembrī
- http://www.laka.lv/news/: Sun/MySQL diena LU Linux centrā 20. septembrī
- http://lata.org.lv/: Programmatūras brīvības diena