Events

Events

MariaDB Foundation’s flagship events are the MariaDB Server Fests. They are aimed at DBAs, devops and developers using MariaDB Server. The first one was arranged in September 2020, with over 10.000 YouTube views and another 17.000 on the Chinese site Bilibili. They are three day interactive online events in multiple timezones.

Upcoming events

MariaDB meetups can also be found on Meetup.com.

Participate

Invite us to give a talk, or help us organise an event.

Contact us at foundation@mariadb.org if you want to invite somebody from the MariaDB Foundation to give a talk at your event, or if you want to sponsor a MariaDB event or in other ways help us organise an event.

If your project relies upon or includes MariaDB, be sure to reach out if you think our presence at your event would be helpful to your developers and users.

Past developer meetings

Past events and conferences

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

  • 19-20 Nov 2015 – DataOps LATAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Colin Charles gave a talk about MariaDB.
  • 14-15th Nov 2015 – Web Conference, Riga, Latvia
  • 7th Nov 2015 – JoomlaDay, Firenze, Italy
  • 7-8th Nov 2015 – OpenFest, Sofia, Bulgaria: The Foundation CEO Otto Kekäläinen had a talk about open source collaboration
  • 2-3 Nov 2015 – HighLoad++, Moscow, Russia. Sergei Petrunia gave a talk here alongside Alexey Maykov from Facebook.
  • LinuxCon Europe – 5-7 Oct, Dublin, Ireland.
    Colin Charles gave a talk about MariaDB.
  • code.talks 2015 – 29-30 Sep, Hamburg, Germany.
    Colin Charles gave a talk, and a tutorial on 02 Oct at code.week.
  • Percona Live Europe Amsterdam – 21-23 Sep 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    Monty Widenius, Colin Charles and Sergei Golubchik had talks at this conference.
  • LinuxCon North America – 17-19 Aug 2015, Seattle, WA, USA.
    Colin Charles had talks at this event as did Max Mether.
  • OSCON – 20-25 Jul 2015, Portland, Oregon
  • Open Source Hong Kong 26-27 Jun, Hong Kong.
    Colin Charles had a talk at this event.
  • Red Hat Summit – 23-26 Jun 2015, Boston
  • DB Tech Showcase 10-12 Jun, Tokyo, Japan.
    Colin Charles had a talk at the event
  • LinuxCon/CloudOpen Japan 3-5 Jun, Tokyo, Japan.
    Colin Charles has a talk at the event
  • O’Reilly Velocity – 27-29 May 2015, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
    Colin Charles had a tutorial at the event.
  • LinuxFest Northwest – 25-26 Apr 2015
  • Penguicon – 24-26 Apr 2015, Southfield, MI, USA
    Colin Charles presented at this conference.
  • Drupal Developer Days Montpellier France – 14 Apr 2015 – Montpellier France
    MariaDB Ambassador Federico Razzoli spoke at the event
  • Percona Live – 13-16 Apr 2015 – Santa Clara, CA, USA, 7 talks and tutorials
  • European Drupal Days Milano 2015 – 19 Mar 2015 — Milan, Italy
    MariaDB Ambassador Federico Razzoli spoke at the event
  • FOSSASIA 2015 – 13-15 Mar 2015 — Singapore
    Colin Charles keynoted at the event.
  • SCALE 13x – 19-22 Feb 2015 – Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Colin Charles
  • FOSDEM 15 – 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2015 – Brussels, Belgium
    Colin Charles

2014

  • CloudStack Collaboration Conference – 19-21 Nov 2014 – Budapest, Hungary.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL HA solutions.
  • MySQLNoSQLCloud Cordoba – 17 Nov 2014 – Cordoba, Argentina.
    Colin Charles and Gerry Narvaja spoke about MariaDB.
  • MySQLNoSQLCloud – 13-14 Nov 2014 – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    Colin Charles and Gerry Narvaja spoke about MariaDB.
  • dbtechshowcase Tokyo – 11-13 Nov 2014 – Tokyo, Japan.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB & MaxScale.
  • PHP Conference Argentina – 7-8 Nov 2014 – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius spoke about MariaDB.
  • Percona Live London 2014 – 3-4 Nov 2014 – London, UK.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL in the Hosted Cloud and Sergei Golubchik spoke about Engine Independent Statistics.
  • CentOS Dojo Barcelona – 29 Oct 2014 – Barcelona, Spain.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB (MySQL++) for CentOS admins & developers.
  • Ohio Linux Fest – 24-26 Oct 2014 – Columbus, Ohio, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL High Availability Solutions and MariaDB a New MySQL in your Distribution.
  • SeaGL – 24-25 Oct 2014 – Seattle, WA, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL High Availability Solutions and MariaDB a New MySQL in your Distribution. LinuxCon Europe – 13-15 Oct 2014 – Dusseldorf, Germany.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB HA solutions.
  • Codetalks – 9-10 Oct 2014 – Hamburg, Germany
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB.
  • WebExpo 2014 – 12-14 Sep 2014 – Prague, Czech Republic.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB for web developers.
  • CentOS Dojo Paris – 25 Aug 2014 – Paris, France.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB for CentOS 7 users.
  • LinuxCon North America – 20-22 Aug 2014 – Chicago, IL, USA.
    Colin Charles had three talks about MariaDB, HA options and Linux for database workloads. Max Mether (SkySQL) had 2 talks.
  • OSCON 2014 – 20-24 Jul 2014 – Portland, OR, USA.
    Colin Charles had a tutorial on MySQL High Availability solutions. SkySQL also had a booth at this venue. Before that, there was a Community Leadership Summit which we were also at (18-19 Jun).
  • South East Linux Fest – 20-22 Jun 2014 – Charlotte, NC, USA.
    Daniel Bartholomew (MariaDB) spoke about Insane NoSQL speeds with MariaDB and HandlerSocket and Colin Charles (MariaDB) spoke about MariaDB 10: Your MySQL alternative, while Max Mether (SkySQL) spoke about MaxScale – An Advanced Proxy for MySQL.
  • DB Tech Showcase – 18-20 Jun 2014 – Osaka, Japan.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB 10.
  • Beijing Big Data and Security Conference 2014 – 11 Jun 2014 – Beijing, China.
    Colin Charles delivered a keynote on MariaDB here.
  • Beijing Linux User Group – 10 Jun 2014 – Beijing, China.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB 10 and why you would consider using it
  • DevNation – 13-17 Apr 2014 – San Francisco, California, USA.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) spoke about MariaDB for DevOps folk.
  • Open Source Data Centre 2014 – 8-10 Apr 2014 – Berlin, Germany.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) spoke about MHA and automated MySQL/MariaDB failover.
  • MariaDB & MySQL community event, Apr 2014 – Hilton Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Thursday, 3 Apr 2014
  • Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo – 1-4 Apr 2014 – Santa Clara, California, USA.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) and Ivan Zoratti (SkySQL) gave a tutorial on MariaDB 10. Colin Charles (MariaDB) gave a talk on automated MySQL failover scenarios, while Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB) gave a talk about MariaDB 10.0 – what’s new. Sergei Golubchik (MariaDB) and Sergei Petrunia (MariaDB) also gave a talk titled: MariaDB Optimizer: See? No Indexes!. Massimiliano Pinto (SkySQL) and Vilho Raatikka (SkySQL) spoke about MaxScale, the pluggable router. SkySQL had a booth and many MariaDB people were there to help answer your questions!
  • Open Source Hong Kong 2014 – 29 Mar 2014 – Hong Kong.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) gave a talk about MariaDB 10: A MySQL Replacement? FOSSASIA 2014 – 28 Feb – 2 Mar, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) gave a keynote about MariaDB as well as a tutorial for existing MySQL users.
  • SCALE12x 2014 – 21-23 Feb 2014 – Los Angeles, California, USA.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) spoke about MariaDB being a viable MySQL replacement as well as MHA and automatic MySQL failovers. SkySQL also had a booth to help answer all your MariaDB questions.
  • FOSDEM 2014 – 1-2 Feb 2014 – Brussels, Belgium.
    Colin Charles (MariaDB) & Stephane Varoqui (SkySQL) spoke about SPIDER, Serge Frezefond (SkySQL) spoke about the MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine, Hartmut Holzgraefe (SkySQL) spoke about OSM Data in MySQL and Massimiliano Pinto (SkySQL) and Vilho Raatikka (SkySQL) spoke about MaxScale, the pluggable router. There was also be a MySQL & Friends booth, and Sergei Petrunia (MariaDB) was there manning it all Saturday & Sunday. There were more of the team throughout FOSDEM as well, including Simon Phipps (MariaDB Foundation CEO) who was around.

2013 and earlier

2013

  • OW2con Paris 2013 – 12-14 Nov 2013 – Paris, France.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB and MySQL in the cloud.
  • Percona Live London 2013 – 11-12 Nov 2013 – London, United Kingdom.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius gave a keynote, Ivan Zoratti gave a tutorial and Colin Charles gave a talk, all on MariaDB with a focus on MariaDB 10.0 series.
  • Developer Conference EU – 7-8 Nov 2013 – Hamburg, Germany.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at this event.
  • LinuxCon Europe – 21-23 Oct 2013 – Edinburgh, Scotland.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL in the Cloud and Tuning Linux for your Database applications.
  • MySQL NoSQL Cloud – 15-16 Oct 2013 – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at this event.
  • MariaDB/MySQL Community Event in Tokyo – 9 Oct 2013 – Tokyo, Japan.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at the community event.
  • Open World Forum – 3-5 Oct 2013 – Paris, France.
    Colin Charles spoke about NewSQL trends and how MariaDB is making it happen.
  • LinuxCon North America – 16-18 Sep 2013 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
    Colin Charles presented two talks at LinuxCon and the CloudOpen event, one on MySQL in the Cloud and the other on the High Availability Landscape around the MySQL world.
  • Monty was at FrOSCon on Sat, 24 Aug 2013 – in room C 217.
  • Percona University @Washington DC 2013 – 12 Sep 2013 – Washington, DC, USA.
    Peter Zaitsev gave a talk: Meet MariaDB 10.0
  • OSCON – 22-26 Jul 2013 – Portland, Oregon, USA.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius spoke about How to Make money with opensource. We were also present at the SkySQL booth in the Expo Hall.
  • The Developers Conference  – 10-14 Jul 2013 – Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    Colin Charles spoke about how MariaDB bridges NoSQL and SQL.
  • O’Reilly Velocity 2013 – 18-20 Jun 2013 – Santa Clara, California, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke about MHA & automated failover.
  • DrupalCon Portland 2013 – 20-24 May 2013 – Portland, Oregon, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB and Drupal usage.
  • OpenWest Conference – 2-4 May 2013 – Orem, Utah, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB.
  • Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 – 22-25 Apr 2013 – Santa Clara, California, USA.
    Many people from MariaDB have talks accepted and spoke.
  • Open Database Camp @ Northeast LinuxFest 2013 – 16-17 Mar 2013 – Boston, MA, USA.
    Colin Charles was at the conference to talk about MariaDB 10.0.
  • Visma Developer Days 2013 – 11-12 Mar 2013 – Riga, Latvia.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius gave 2 sessions, one of which was a keynote.
  • FOSDEM 2013 – 2-3 Feb 2013 – Brussels, Belgium.
    Colin Charles presented on MHA for high availability with a hint of MariaDB.

2012

  • Percona Live London 2012 – 3-4 Dec 2012 – London, United Kingdom.
    Colin Charles & Sergei Golubchik spoke about MariaDB and MHA for high availability. Michael “Monty” Widenius gave a keynote address!
  • Tech planet 2012 – 14 Nov 2012 – Seoul, South Korea.
    Colin Charles talked about “new SQL” trends, and how MariaDB & MySQL are going forward with multiple NoSQL solutions.
  • LinuxCon Europe 2012 – 5-9 Nov 2012 – Barcelona, Spain.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at this event in Barcelona, Spain.
  • HighLoad++ 2012 – 22-23 Oct 2012 – Moscow, Russia.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at this event in Moscow, Russia. Trivia: this was also his first time in Moscow!
  • Ashisuto db tech showcase 2012 – 17-19 Oct 2012 – Tokyo, Japan.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB at this event in Tokyo, Japan, organised by K.K. Ashisuto. There was also a MariaDB meetup on October 16 2012.
  • Percona Live NYC 2012 – 1-2 Oct 2012 – New York City, USA.
    Colin Charles talked about the future of the MariaDB project at Percona Live. Monty Program was a small sponsor of the event.
  • Y4IT 2012 – 10-14 Sep 2012 – Manila, Philippines.
    Colin Charles spoke.
  • LinuxCon North America 2012 – 29-31 Aug 2012 – San Diego, CA, USA.
    Colin Charles was present at the joint Monty Program–SkySQL booth and was around networking at the event.
  • OSCON 2012 – 16-20 Jul 2012 – Portland, Oregon, USA.
    The MariaDB project had a DotOrg booth in the non-profit pavillion. Michael “Monty” Widenius and Colin Charles were there.
  • MariaDB NoSQL Cloud – 26-28 Jun 2012 – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB. There was also a booth that SkySQL had, and we were there answering all sorts of MariaDB-related questions.
  • beLAUNCH 2012 – 13-14 Jun 2012 – Seoul, South Korea.
    Colin Charles spoke about MariaDB to the startups.
  • SouthEast LinuxFest 2012 – 8-10 Jun 2012 – Charlotte, NC, USA.
    Daniel Bartholomew spoke about the anatomy of an open source release, while Max Mether from SkySQL presented a talk about MariaDB.
  • Effective MySQL NYC meetup – 30 Apr 2012 – New York City, NYC, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke at the meetup in New York about MariaDB, the new M in LAMP.
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2012 – 28-29 Apr 2012 – Bellingham, WA, USA.
    Colin Charles spoke twice at this event. There was clearly a MySQL track at the event. Monty Program was a joint-sponsor of the event with SkySQL and donated the logo usage to the MariaDB project. We had a booth presence and gave away t-shirts, stickers, and etc.
  • sesja.linuksowa – 21-22 Apr 2012 – Wroclaw, Poland.
    Colin Charles gave a keynote address at the conference.
  • SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day – 13 Apr 2012 – Santa Clara, CA, USA.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius gave the opening keynote alongside David Axmark, followed by Rasmus Johansson, Sergei Golubchik and Colin Charles on a panel about MariaDB. Colin also gave a talk at Sphinx Search Day which happened concurrently with the event.
  • Percona Live Santa Clara – 10-12 Apr 2012 – Santa Clara, CA, USA.
    Timour Katchaounov and Sergei Petrunia had one tutorial titled: Improving MySQL/MariaDB query performance through optimizer tuning. Sergei Golubchik presented on MySQL plugins, and Colin Charles presented on MariaDB in 2012. We had a DotOrg booth for MariaDB in the Expo Hall as well as a MariaDB BoF.
  • Linux Open Administration Days – 31 Mar-1 Apr 2012 – Antwerp, Belgium.
    Colin Charles presented on MariaDB in 2012.
  • High Performance Computing and Open Source & Linux Technical Excellence Symposium (HPC & OSL TES) – 19-23 Mar 2012 – Grenoble, France.
    Colin Charles talked about MariaDB and the wider MySQL diaspora.
  • FOSDEM 2012 – 4-5 Feb 2012 – Brussels, Belgium.
    Sergey Petrunya had two talks at FOSDEM in the MySQL DevRoom. MariaDB was strong there with an appearance from Michael “Monty” Widenius and Colin Charles as well.
  • MySQL Meetup Paris – 1 Feb 2012 – Paris, France.
    Colin Charles had a talk accepted and presented at the MySQL Meetup in Paris.
  • SCALE10x – 20-22 Jan 2012 – Los Angeles, California, USA.
    Colin Charles had three talks accepted. The company also shared a booth in the expo hall with SkySQL.
  • OSWC2012 – 12-13 Jan 2012 – Granada, Spain.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event. He had one talk accepted.

2011

  • MyGOSSCON 2011 – 29-30 Nov 2011 – Putrajaya, Malaysia.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event. He had one talk accepted.
  • LinuxCon Brazil – 17-18 Nov 2011 – Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event. He had one talk accepted.
  • T-DOSE: Technical Dutch Open Source Event – 5-6 Nov 2011 – Eindhoven, Netherlands.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event. He had two talks accepted.
  • Percona Live London 2011 — 24-25 Oct 2011 – London, United Kingdom.
    Sergei Golubchik and Colin Charles had one talk each accepted at Percona Live London. They were about pluggable authentication in MySQL & MariaDB, as well as why you want to use MariaDB. Monty Program was also a sponsor of the conference.
  • LinuxCon Europe – 26-28 Oct 2011 – Prague, Czech Rep.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event. He had one talk accepted. Monty Program was a sponsor of the conference.
  • Comtel 2011 – 19-21 Oct 2011 – Lima, Peru.
    Michael “Monty” Widenius had 2 keynotes and one four-hour presentation!
  • Open Source Developers Club France – 23-24 Sep 2011 – Paris, France
    Colin Charles had three talks accepted and presented them all on Saturday! schedule. This event happened with Open World Forum from Sep 22-24 2011.
  • LinuxCon North America – 17-19 Aug 2011 – Vancouver, BC Canada
    Monty Program had a booth (as a sponsor) and also had Colin Charles speaking at the event.
  • FrOSCon 6 – 20-21 Aug 2011 – Sankt Augustin, Germany
    Michael “Monty” Widenius spoke at the event.
  • OSCon 25-29 Jul 2011 – Portland, OR, USA.
    Monty Program was not present, but the MariaDB project had a booth in the DotOrg Pavilion. From Monty Program, we had Michael Widenius, Kurt von Finck, and Colin Charles in attendance.
  • Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011(MOSC2011) – 3-6 Jul 2011 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    Colin Charles spoke at the event.
  • Linux Symposium – 13-15 Jun 2011 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
    Colin Charles had two talks at the conference: MariaDB: The New M in LAMP and The MySQL Storage Engines Landscape.
  • LinuxCon Japan – 1-3 Jun 2011 – Yokohama, Japan.
    Monty Program had a booth alongside SkySQL. Colin Charles was present.
  • Open Database Camp Sardinia – 6-8 May 2011, Sardinia, Italy.
    Sergei Golubchik and Colin Charles were at the unconference. Both of them had talks at the event.
  • Open Source Database for Enterprises – 29 Apr 2011 – Singapore.
    Colin Charles spoke about MySQL & MariaDB: Ready for the Enterprise.
  • MySQL Conference – 11-14 Apr 2011 – Santa Clara, CA, USA.
    Monty Program presented many talks.
  • Web 2.0 Expo – 28-31 Mar 2011 – San Francisco, CA, USA.
    Colin Charles was there.
  • DrupalCon – 7-10 Mar 2011 – Chicago, IL, USA.
  • SCaLE – 25-27 Feb 2011 – Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Percona Live – 16 Feb 2011 – San Francisco, CA, USA.
    Igor Babaev spoke about the State of MariaDB.
  • Garum day – 16 Feb 2011 – Bilbao, Spain.
    Monty spoke about MariaDB and open source entrepreneurship.
  • FOSDEM – 6-7 Feb 2011

2010

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