{"id":7213,"date":"2015-04-18T02:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2015-04-18T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:20:18","slug":"mysql-community-awards-2015-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/mysql-community-awards-2015-the-winners","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Community Awards 2015: the Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporates for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. It is a from-the-community, by-the-community and for-the-community effort. The committee is composed of an independent group of community members of different orientation and opinion, themselves past winners or known contributors to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 community awards were presented on April 15rd, 2015, during the community event at the Percona Live conference. The winners are:<\/p>\n<h4>MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2015<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dani\u00ebl van Eeden<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dani\u00ebl has done great work on MySQL security and has continued to fantastically support MySQL User Group.NL. He has also logged a lot of bugs (and submitted patches), across all sorts of different MySQL products and has done a great deal to help improve the quality of MySQL.Dani\u00ebl consistently provides extremely good feedback, on a wide range of features and products, from MySQL server security, through InnoDB, partitioning, and even on other products such MySQL Enterprise Backup and MySQL Enterprise Monitor. His bugs are always reported with a high quality, and many times he even includes a contribution to fix those bugs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Swanhart<br \/>\n<\/strong>Justin has worked tirelessly for the past few years on some amazing projects of his own design, Shard-Query and Flexviews. Cross shard aggregation is an extremely complex thing to get right, and Shard-Query takes an interesting approach at this. Flexviews provides a materialized view framework, which is something that MySQL lacks to many people&#8217;s annoyance. Additionally Justin has also built some performance_schema related tools, reported many MySQL bugs, and has been a public speaker about MySQL in &#8220;can do&#8221; style.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Morgan Tocker<br \/>\n<\/strong>In his day job, Morgan is Community Manager at Oracle. While some of his community interaction has been because of his job, he has gone far and beyond his corporate responsibilities. He is one of the most prolific writers on the MySQL Planet, he has been the most public face of MySQL, and he is always asking for feedback and showing a sincere concern for the Open Source community.For example, Morgan\u2019s community polls on what defaults should be changed in MySQL 5.7 put some of the MySQL product decision making directly into the hands of the community. He is a key player on keeping the community and the MySQL developers at Oracle in touch with each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>MySQL Community Awards: Application of the year 2015<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>sys schema<\/strong><br \/>\nAs PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA matured in the MySQL ecosystem, Mark Leith identified the need to condense its information around user-friendliness and visibility. \u00a0Out of this, the ps_helper and eventually MySQL SYS projects were born. This actively-developed, one-man project has become a standard integration in the MySQL distribution today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VividCortex<\/strong><br \/>\nVividCortex brings fresh and challenging ideas to the monitoring space, originally targeting MySQL. It provides near realtime information that was previously deemed unattainable through aggressive sampling and original statistical formulas that is raising the bar for monitoring high performance data stores at scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor of the year 2015<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WebScaleSQL Contributors: Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Alibaba<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a common misconception, but WebScaleSQL is not a competitor to MySQL \u2013 it is strongly rooted in Oracle\u2019s MySQL and closely follows its \u201cupstream\u201d MySQL codebase. Instead, it is intended as a place for several companies that were already collaborating on scalability improvements in MySQL to do so in a quicker and more succinct manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congrats to all winners!<\/p>\n<h4>Committee members are:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Baron Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>Colin Charles<\/li>\n<li>Frederic Descamps<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Anderson<\/li>\n<li>Giuseppe Maxia<\/li>\n<li>Marc Delisle<\/li>\n<li>Mark Leith<\/li>\n<li>Philip Stoev<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Bradford<\/li>\n<li>Santiago Lertora<\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Jeremy Cole <em>(Secretary)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shlomi Noach\u00a0<em>(Secretary)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Special thanks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to this year&#8217;s anonymous sponsor for donating the goblets!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Colin Charles for acquiring and transporting the goblets!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Santiago Lertora for working out <a href=\"http:\/\/mysqlawards.org\/\">the new swards website<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/community-awards-2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7214\" src=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/community-awards-2015.png\" alt=\"community-awards-2015\" width=\"843\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/community-awards-2015.png 843w, https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/community-awards-2015-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporates for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. 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