MySQL Users Conference 2006 - Call for Participation

Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL.
April 24-27, 2006 — Santa Clara, California
Proposal Deadline: November 7, 2005

Share your knowledge and experience of employing MySQL in the real world. The Call for Participation is now open, and you're invited to submit a proposal to speak at the next MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27, 2006, in Santa Clara, California.

To submit a proposal, click here.

Building upon the great success of the 2005 MySQL Users Conference, MySQL AB is once again teaming up with O'Reilly Media, to co-present next year's event. Bringing together MySQL developers, partners and other users, the 2006 MySQL Users Conference will feature a wide range of tutorials and sessions, giving attendees new views of the MySQL Universe — everything from an overview of the latest business and product developments — to an in-depth look at scaling, optimization and MySQL's inner-workings.

Next year, we will enlarge our exhibition hall to showcase the latest MySQL-related technologies by vendors and open source projects. We're also planning some special evening events for attendees and speakers.

Call for Participation Details

The MySQL Users Conference brings over 1,000 open source and database enthusiasts together as a celebration of the huge MySQL ecosystem. The theme for the 2006 conference is "Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL". The conference mirrors the product's wide-ranging appeal and capabilities, encouraging community members to help create the best database software, gain knowledge, develop tools, and build applications that help grow businesses and nurture individual skills.

Proposals should focus on helping attendees:

• Harness the full power of MySQL, including best practices
• Learn and use the features in MySQL version 5.0 and beyond
• Learn how to better administer MySQL
• Learn from experts who use MySQL in various real-world application architectures
• Migrate from proprietary databases to MySQL
• Employ scale out through Replication, Clustering and other tools and techniques
• Learn more about the many excellent MySQL community projects

Topics include:

• Database Administration (DBA) and Security
• Architecture and Technology
• Business and Case Studies
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
• Java
• .NET/Mono
• MaxDB
• Migration
• Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
• Cluster, Replication and other Scale-out/High Availability solutions
• Embedded MySQL: libmysqld and embedded OS environments
• Community Projects that use MySQL

There is also a General Topic for other topics and sessions that don't necessarily fit into the topics above. When preparing a proposal, please also consider the audience you wish to target: developer, DBA, business manager; and the knowledge level -- from high-level overviews to deep internals. A quickpoll was held on the MySQL Developer Zone, asking people which topics they are most interested in.

Proposals will be considered in two types: 45-minute session presentations and 3-hour pre-conference tutorials.

Important Dates:

• The submission deadline for all proposals is midnight (PST) November 7, 2005
• Speakers will be notified by November 30, 2005
• Final session details, speaker bios, and tutorial materials are due by March 13, 2006
• General registration will open in December 2005
• The MySQL Users Conference 2006 dates are April 24 - 27, 2006

Complete conference details