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Introduction

OpenSQL Camp is a conference of, by, and for the open-source database community of users and developers. It is a place where people come to learn, to participate and to contribute. In other words, it's a great conference, and if you attend, it will be better.

OpenSQL Camp is open to all – sessions have included PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL (and storage engines and forks thereof), Drizzle (and tools such as Google Proto Buffers), DBIx::Cache, Gearman, cloud computing, Unix tips, query optimization, Apache Derby, BlackRay, Continuent Tungsten, DB Clustering, Firebird, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Firewater, how to version schemas, Waffle Grid / Storm Cloud, databases on SSDs, and even "soft" topics like the Open Database Alliance.

Open Database Camp 2012

In the US: There will be an Open Database Camp held at Southeast LinuxFest 2012.

In Europe: There will be an Open Database Camp held at FrOSCon 2012

Get involved

• Join the mailing list!
• Follow us on twitter!
• Join the #opensqlcamp IRC channel on http://freenode.net/
• Run your own OpenSQL Camp

Previous Events

• The first OpenSQLCamp 2008 took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, November 14, 15, and 16 2008.
• OpenSQLCamp 2009, European Edition took place in parallel to the Free and Open Source Conference 2009 (FrOSCon) on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in St. Augustin, Germany.
• OpenSQL Camp Portland 2009 took place November 13-15, 2009 in Portland, Oregon.
• OpenSQL Camp EU 2010 again took place in parallel of FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany on August 21st & 22nd, 2010.
• OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010 took place Oct 15-17, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts
• Open Database Camp 2011 took place May 6-7-8, 2011 in Sardinia, Italy
• Open Database Camp 2011 @ FrOSCon was held at FrOSCon 2011

The OpenSQLCamp concept was preceded from the MySQL community by the MySQLCamp. There were three MySQLCamp events.

• MySQLCamp I at Googleplex, Mountain View - Nov 2006
• MySQLCamp II at Polytechnic University, New York - August 23-24 2007
• MySQLCamp III at Santa Clara - April 19-23 2009