“ I wish to meet with people of similar interests for the purposes of building a network of knowledgeable peers and learning about what other people know. ”

“ I need to be able to talk with local experts in html, php, dreamweaver, photoshop questions. Sometimes I get stuck and wish I had a few friends I could call to help me immediately. Just finished my new site at http://www.MinisiteWebsiteTemplates.com ”

“ I am a philanthropist and look to use MySql to better the world. ”

“ Hey gang! I work for MySQL and develop the Connector/Net ADO.Net provider and also help out on the server team. I decided it might be time for me to become a bit more active in the user community. I'm not sure I can make it to all the meetings but wil ”

“ Hi all - My name is Mark Maslakowski. A couple of years ago I wrote a book Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days. I'm here in the Nashville area and would like to meet other MySQL DBAs. ”

“ I have been a SQL Server developer for 3 years, but I don't know dink about MySQL. I would like to learn MySQL in my "spare" time. ”

“ I work for a company that handles hotel reservations for different hotel chains and properties. I develop mostly for LAMP (mysql, php) but also have to maintain and migrate off of windows server 2003 and ASP pages (sigh...) ”

“ Managing Editor, Database Journal ”