{"id":755,"date":"2008-03-22T04:02:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/22\/melbourne-meetup-mashup"},"modified":"2008-03-22T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T09:02:58","slug":"melbourne-meetup-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/22\/melbourne-meetup-mashup","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Meetup Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, the day before the long weekend (Friday being Good Friday, following week Monday being Easter Monday), the Melbourne MySQL Meetup group met, for an event that was not our usual meetup, but that of a Meetup Mashup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Held at RMIT, I spoke about the recent purchase, what changes, what doesn’t, and how we’re 100% committed to making the same great product even better. After that, Gary Pendergast, spoke about how the support is run, and how nothing changes there, except its becoming beefier! We also had a Sun Campus Ambassador, Zhiqi Tao speak about the campus ambassador program, and how he evangelises Sun technologies at universities (his particular one, being Melbourne University). There is also apparently an RMIT ambassador, who missed the meeting.<\/p>\n

After the talk, a pocket of us headed to dinner at the Oxford Scholar. There was much beer to be had, and there was food too. Good thing I remembered that I had picked up my camera earlier that day, so I did manage to take a few snaps. Below, are those that stayed till almost eleven, when we realised that it was about time to start catching our relevant trains and trams to head home (remember kids, no drinking and driving).<\/p>\n

\"Sun\/MySQL<\/a>
The Stragglers: (l-r) Colin Charles, Tristan Penman, Gary Pendergast, Zhiqi Tao<\/i><\/div>\n

Thanks Sun for getting the tab! It was a good time, and even during dinner, we were mashing up, moving around from seat to seat, to participate in more conversations.<\/p>\n

Things learnt that day?<\/p>\n