From the FOSS-SM site.
Mysql Topic: “Mysql performance tuning and benchmarking”
Colin Charles
Community Relations Manager
MySQL AB
Colin Charles is the Community Relations Manager at MySQL AB. He lives in Melbourne, Australia and has been with MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He currently spends a lot of his time making community-based projects happy using the MySQL database.
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CouchDB Topic: “Introduction to CouchDB”
Ditesh Kumar
Ditesh is a free software developer and has been officially blessed by St. Ignucious. He has sworn to the oath of writing free software for the goodness of all mankind, and is known to be mostly holy (though not celibate). He can be found at free software events in Malaysia.
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When
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Thursday, January 10th 7:30 PM
What - Meetup Agenda
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7:30pm - 7:45pm Opening by the Organizer
7:45pm - 8:30pm MySQL Performance Tuning and Benchmarking - Colin Charles, MySQLAB
8:30pm - 8:45pm MySQL Q&A
8:45pm - 9:30pm Couch DB - Ditesh Kumar
Cost:
Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and
join the crowd.
Contact
kaeru@inigo-tech.com
+60-16-3111330
Where:
OUM Angkasa Raya
Open University Malaysia
Floor\Tingkat 3, Bangunan Angkasa Raya,
Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
TEL: 60-3-2148 8400
Located near Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC)
15 minute walk from the KLCC LRT station.
Praying facilities are available on the campus.
About MyOSS Meetups
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Interested in helping out the Free and Open Source Community in Malaysia?
Check out http://foss.org.my/projects/meetups/howto
If you would like to do a presentation, please contact me at the above email address.
Learn more about the MyOSS Meetups at
http://foss.org.my/projects/meetups/about .
This meetup is possible due to the support and facilities provided by Open University Malaysia.
I came about the The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search through one of my emails. Here are some slogans from their site.
- The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Website.
- Web Awards recognizing the very best in Malaysian Youths.
If you go through the list of over 100 websites, you’ll notice that a large number of them are blogs. Does that make them commercially viable? No not really. But when you opt to join their ranks, they ask you “How is your site considered INNOVATIVE?” (with capitalization preserved). Is there any innovation in these bloggers? Personally, I think not.
Where is the innovation?
As an experiment, I submitted my Malaysia Air Pollution Index, and see how it fares amongst them.
Disadvantages: haze.net.my gets booted from the list.
Advantages: More visibility for the site.
Interestingly enough they also ask “How does your site bring INCOME?” (again with capitalization preserved). To which I honestly responded “It doesn’t”.
A few months ago, the International Open Source Network held an Exchange Grant for people in developing countries to visit a FOSS related event before the end of the year.
Having never gone for an overseas FOSS conference, I took the opportunity and submitted an application form.
A few weeks passed by with no reply, until I was informed that along with Ditesh I was one of the lucky candidates to go to FOSS.IN in Bangalore, India.
Not only would this be my first visit to a FOSS conference, but also to Bangalore, India. Many firsts.
Sadly the flight to Bangalore required a short transit in Chennai. The departure time for Chennai was at 8:20am, so I had to be in the airport earlier than usual to catch the flight. Both flights were okay, but they were packed to the brim.
I’ve always held this image that Bangalore was a modern city, complete with a fully automated public transport system, large streets, what ever the definition of a modern city is. But at least on par with Kuala Lumpur. Immediately after touch down, reality hit, and I was slightly shocked. This image is probably built because of continually hearing Bangalore referred to as the “Silicon Valley of India”.
Perhaps I should have read Wikipedia it before arriving.
After arriving to our service apartments, The Orchard Suite, Ditesh and myself preceded to the FOSS.IN location at JN Tata Auditorium, National Science Symposium Centre, Indian Institute of Science by the infamous mode of transportation, the rickshaw.
The rickshaw rides are bearable, with the only exception being that due to its open nature, I found my hair flying all over the place.
Nonetheless we arrived safely. While waiting fro the registration booth to open, we hung around outside, pulled out our laptops, and leeched off the Internet.
After a long hiccup, registration opened much much later after we arrived. Once we registered, we finally got to meetup with Colin. As it was already night time we preceded to MG Road for dinner.
Note: Blog posts are highly dependent on wifi availability.
You can follow my flickr feed while I attempt to take more photos with my Nokia e61i. Or follow the public flickr feed!
