Re: [mysql-284] Additional Meetings

On Thursday 17 April 2008 18:30, Matthew Montgomery wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:55 -0400, Thomas Weeks wrote:
> > On Monday 14 April 2008 10:13, Jay Payne wrote:
> > > Sure,  I'm interested.    Let me know if I can help.   I would be happy
> > > to supply some snacks and drinks.
> >
> > I thought that these were going to be regular U.G. type monthy sessions?
>
> Yes, that is the plan.  Being a new group, I would like the members
> feedback on discussion topics, meeting location, time/date, etc... I
> have heard no strong objections to Dave and Busters as I suggested in my
> meeting followup e-mail.  Does anyone have suggestions on these topics?

Well.. I know that D&B room reservations (and food) aren't "cheap".  Is 
payment for this being handled by MySQL/Sun?  I'm a bit biased for continuing 
to have it at Rackspace.. but were there reason to change? (just curious).



On Thursday 17 April 2008 20:30, Edwin wrote:
[...]
> I think Dave & Busters should be fine. The only question would be whether a
> projector would be helpful. The only suggestions for topics that I have
> heard is a comparison of MySQL and Postgres, which was mentioned by Vidyut
> and Tweeks. That is sort of a wide open topic, so I am going to throw out
> some ideas of what could be discussed for either:
>   * Replication
>   * Backups
[...]

thanks for rounding that out Edwin!


> So, is anybody interested in these?

Those subjects sounded perfect.. although you could probably split that up 
into 2-3 meetings really (if you're going to do interactive Q&A).

Sound great tho!

Tweeks




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