Comments on: Percona Live 2013 news: Oracle, BoF, Lightning Talks

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:28:34 +0000

In *all* fairness, we still have 2 business conferences for MySQL, and lots of smaller community days. Community gives input and helps plan both conferences, but they’re still business conferences. (e.g. keynotes are sponsors) I’ve been to some amazing community conferences and I’m very sad that it could not be done in the MySQL world.

By: shlomi

shlomi — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:24:05 +0000

Sheeri,

I also happened to speak to authorities on Oracle, and have a somewhat different understanding than yours of the reasons behind Oracle not participating in Percona Live previously. With apologies I will not elaborate (it’s not that I hold a big secret, just that the talks were private).

But in all fairness, Sheeri, it takes two to tango. I’m not in on the internals of these recent developments. But I’m more than inclined to believe there is an effort on both sides.

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:31:06 +0000

To be fair, I’m happy for it and it’s a great gain for the community. Sort of. Now we have 2 big business conferences with the same players. Win? I guess because they’re 6 months apart? Most people will only go to one of the 2, though.

I do wish Percona didn’t block having a big community conference. LCA (linux conf australia), Confoo, SCALE in Los Angeles, are all conferences the same size or bigger than the April MySQL Conference that are 100% volunteer run. We could have had that, but Percona blocked it by not participating and doing their own conference instead.

I guess we have what we have….but I give kudos to Oracle for this, not Percona.

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:28:34 +0000

From my understanding, Oracle did not want to send engineers to a conference called “Percona Live”. Percona refused to change the name (from my understanding, on the MySQL Council talking directly to Oracle higher-ups, just changing it to “MySQL Conference and Expo” would have been fine, if “Percona” was not part of the title).

Oracle came around, but I don’t see how Percona deserves *any* credit for Oracle deciding to be the grownups.