{"id":2715,"date":"2013-05-04T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T15:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2013-05-07T04:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:10:38","slug":"trip-report-openwest-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/04\/trip-report-openwest-conference","title":{"rendered":"Trip Report: OpenWest Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Look at those mountains by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8703865072\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8556\/8703865072_979b735850_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"Look at those mountains\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwest.org\/\">OpenWest Conference<\/a> in Orem, Utah, and have to say its one of the best community organised conferences. There were over 840+ people at the conference (with more walk-in&#8217;s), representing a greater than 100% growth rate compared to last year&#8217;s conference.<\/p>\n<p>I gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/bytebot\/mariadb-the-new-m-in-lamp\">talk<\/a> about MariaDB, and its safe to say that we&#8217;ve got many new features that that it&#8217;s getting very hard to go in-depth in a span of an hour.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights for me was attending talks. I give so many talks, and spend a lot of time talking to people about MariaDB and MySQL, that I very rarely get to see other talks or learn new things. So OpenWest was very welcome from that aspect.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, I saw a wonderful presentation by Dave Wellman on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dwellman\/introduction-to-hadoop-and-the-big-data-hype\">Hadoop 101 and the Big Data Hype<\/a>. That&#8217;s an excellent slide deck with lots of animations. <a href=\"http:\/\/toys.lerdorf.com\/\">Rasmus Lerdorf<\/a> gave an excellent presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/talks.php.net\/show\/openwest\">PHP in 2013<\/a> &#8211; very detail oriented, I learned a lot about PHP 5.4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highlights for Friday were the two morning keynotes &#8211; both Rasmus Lerdorf and <a href=\"http:\/\/mysqlha.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Callaghan<\/a> gave thoughtful speeches. I gave my talk (thanks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MySQLatFacebook\/posts\/10151573070736696\">nice words<\/a> Mark), received lots of good questions and feedback (thanks to being right before lunch), attended Mark&#8217;s MySQL Q&amp;A which was a great conversation for an hour. Many were interactive. I stuck around for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemeyers.net\/\">Steve Meyers<\/a> presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smconsulting.us\/files\/Database%20Optimization%20(OpenWest%202013-05-03).pdf\">Database Optimization for Web Developers<\/a>, which was a 2hr tutorial and a good walkthrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a great time at the conference. Not to forget all the social time chatting with Mark and Steve. I&#8217;ve enjoyed my trip to Utah (first time here), and thanks to Steve for having us speak about MariaDB, and the captive audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the OpenWest Conference in Orem, Utah, and have to say its one of the best community organised conferences. There were over 840+ people at the conference (with more walk-in&#8217;s), representing a greater than 100% growth rate compared to last year&#8217;s conference. 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