I am REALLY excited about the upcoming MySQL University Speakers Tour that was Dupleepa Wijayawardhana's "brain child". A team of us @ Sun have managed to coordinate quite a spectacular "road show" for the four speakers who have generously offered their time and expertise to speak to students across North America (Eastern Canada, Midwest and Western US).
Read Giuseppe's blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/mysql_tour_of_california_universities An embedded link to Dups blog will also reveal some of the tour stops.
Here are the bios of our four speakers.
For the Southern California University Tour: Giuseppe Maxia and Sheeri K. Cabral
Giuseppe Maxia, Sun/MySQL
Giuseppe Maxia is the MySQL community team lead. A system analyst with 20 years of IT experience, he has worked as a database consultant and designer for several years. He is a frequent speaker at open source events and the author of many articles. He lives in Sardinia (Italy).
Sheeri K. Cabral, The Pythian Group
Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has background as a systems administrator; has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and co-wrote The MySQL Server Administrator’s Bible, to be published in May 2009. Keep up with all this at www.technocation.org
For the Northern California University Tour: Colin Charles and Dups
Colin Charles, Sun/MySQL
http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/schedule/speaker/147
Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, Sun/MySQL
Duleepa Wijayawardhana is the Sun/MySQL Community Relations Manager for North America and is an open-source evangelist. Prior to joining the community team, he was one of MySQL Web Team’s Web Developers managing and working on the popular mysql.com. Before joining MySQL, Dups worked for game developer BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Canada (now Electronic Arts) where he helped develop the BioWare Community Site, BioWare Store, and various other game-related properties as well as being Manager for BioWare’s Application Support Team. He lives in Montreal, Canada. http://blogs.sun.com/dups // http://www.dups.ca
Read Giuseppe's blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/mysql_tour_of_california_universities An embedded link to Dups blog will also reveal some of the tour stops.
Here are the bios of our four speakers.
For the Southern California University Tour: Giuseppe Maxia and Sheeri K. Cabral
Giuseppe Maxia, Sun/MySQL
Giuseppe Maxia is the MySQL community team lead. A system analyst with 20 years of IT experience, he has worked as a database consultant and designer for several years. He is a frequent speaker at open source events and the author of many articles. He lives in Sardinia (Italy).
Sheeri K. Cabral, The Pythian Group
Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has background as a systems administrator; has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and co-wrote The MySQL Server Administrator’s Bible, to be published in May 2009. Keep up with all this at www.technocation.org
For the Northern California University Tour: Colin Charles and Dups
Colin Charles, Sun/MySQL
http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/schedule/speaker/147
Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, Sun/MySQL
Duleepa Wijayawardhana is the Sun/MySQL Community Relations Manager for North America and is an open-source evangelist. Prior to joining the community team, he was one of MySQL Web Team’s Web Developers managing and working on the popular mysql.com. Before joining MySQL, Dups worked for game developer BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Canada (now Electronic Arts) where he helped develop the BioWare Community Site, BioWare Store, and various other game-related properties as well as being Manager for BioWare’s Application Support Team. He lives in Montreal, Canada. http://blogs.sun.com/dups // http://www.dups.ca