MySQL Developer’s Meeting in Heidelberg

The MySQL Developer’s Meeting has started. The weather is pretty moderately okay, there’s occasional rain, so we’ve all been given rain coats/rain jackets. The hotel is fully packed, and the lobby is generally filled with folk hacking away at things. Plenty of meetings, plenty of sessions, it is highly interesting, and it looks like there’s some team interoperability and we can better understand how to deliver things now.

This meeting has encouraged blogging, but I have a feeling most are too busy to write stuff. There will be meeting notes, and at some stage we should publish them externally. There should be heaps of pictures because I see everyone walking around with cameras (so I’ve conveniently left mine at the hotel).

Oh, and did I mention, its a great way to meet other MySQLers? So many names and nicknames, are now put to faces. So yes, Heidelberg is proving to be fun.

Current sticker theme: “We need foreign keys now!” We also got a good understanding of where we’re headed to in 2008-2009, and our real role which is to serve customers, not necessarily please them. A good quote, on product management: Engineers want to be market driven, but not be driven by marketing! Current free t-shirt count: 4 (though I realistically have to give away two of them).