{"id":2974,"date":"2014-09-29T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:12:37","slug":"trip-report-linuxcon-north-america-centos-dojo-paris-webexpo-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/29\/trip-report-linuxcon-north-america-centos-dojo-paris-webexpo-prague","title":{"rendered":"Trip report: LinuxCon North America, CentOS Dojo Paris, WebExpo Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had quite a good time at LinuxCon North America\/CloudOpen North America 2014<\/a>, alongside my colleague Max Mether<\/a> – between us, we gave a total of five talks. I noticed that this year there was a database heavy track \u2013 Morgan Tocker<\/a> from Oracle\u2019s MySQL Team had a few talks as did Martin MC Brown<\/a> from Continuent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The interest in MariaDB stems from the fact that people are starting to just see it appear in CentOS 7, and its just everywhere (you can even get it from the latest Ubuntu LTS). This makes for giving interesting talks, since many are shipping MariaDB 5.5<\/a> as the default choice, but that\u2019s something we released over 2 years ago; clearly there are many interesting new bits in MariaDB 10.0 that need attention!<\/p>\n

Chicago is a fun place to be \u2013 the speaker gift was an architectural tour of Chicago by boat, probably one of the most useful gifts I\u2019ve ever received (yes, I took plenty of photos!). The Linux Foundation team organised the event wonderfully as always, and I reckon the way the keynotes were setup with the booths in the same room was a clear winner \u2013 pity we didn\u2019t have a booth there this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, I headed to Paris for the CentOS Dojo. The room was full (some 50 attendees?), whom were mainly using CentOS and its clear that CentOS 7 comes with MariaDB so this was a talk to get people up to speed with what\u2019s different with MySQL 5.5, what\u2019s missing from MySQL 5.6, and when to look at MariaDB 10. We want to build CentOS 7 packages for the MariaDB repository<\/a>\u00a0(10.0 is already available with MariaDB 10.0.14), so watch MDEV-6433<\/a> in the meantime for the latest 5.5 builds.<\/p>\n

Then there was WebExpo Prague<\/a>, with over 1,400 attendees, held in various theatres around Prague. Lots of people here also using MariaDB, some rather interesting conversations on having a redis front-end, how we power many sites, etc. Its clear that there is a need for a meetup group here, there\u2019s plenty of usage.<\/p>\n

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