Well I’ve been back for nearly a week already… happy New Year everybody! I am happy to note that Open Query business continued as normal while I was not around; delegation to capable co-workers is a great thing (I’ll admit to checking in on things while in Europe, but that’s about it – had a real holiday).

Barely back from the three weeks in Europe with my daughter (3 1/2 yrs old, she had a ball and good fun even on the very long 12+8 hrs flights), I’m packing for the annual Linux.conf.au which this year is in Hobart, Tasmania (that’s still Australia).

Linux.conf.au 2009 features a two-day miniconference about open source databases, with MySQL and Drizzle abundantly represented. Monty Widenius (yes the one and only!) is coming this time, possibly thanks to me prodding his wife Anna about it many months back… and it appears nearly all of the core Drizzle team (Brian Aker, Monty Taylor, Mark Atwood, Stewart Smith) will be there also. Excellent! All good friends and it’ll be great to see them again (well I did see most in Charlottesville in November, but still).

See http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/monday and http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/tuesday for the miniconf schedule as it stands now. I’m also speaking in the “Business of Open Source” miniconf, a session on “Open Source and your business and development models”. I believe Brian has a talk about Drizzle in the main LCA program.