Author Archives: Kaj Arnö
What a great place for informal interactions, strengthening the network, and hearing the latest news from the grapevine! Last weekend 1.-3. Feb 2019, over 8000 developers met in Brussels for FOSDEM 2019.
For the overall atmosphere, take a look at this 1:05 long video by Sofia Ek.
MariaDB Foundation was present with six staff people (Ian Gilfillan, Vicențiu Ciorbaru, Teodor Ionita, Robert Bîndar, Zak Greant and myself) and two board members (Eric Herman from Booking.com and Serg Golubchik from MariaDB Corporation). …
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It is my pleasure and honour to join the MariaDB Foundation as its new CEO from 1 Feb 2019. Following MariaDB closely since its inception, I welcome the opportunity to be focusing completely on adoption, collaboration and free open development of MariaDB Server. I joined MySQL AB in 2001 and worked in various leadership positions, notably as VP Community Relations, a task I continued at Sun Microsystems and, briefly, Oracle. A co-founder of SkySQL and an executive at MariaDB Corporation, I have now been part of the Open Source ecosystem for nearly two decades. The journey continues to fascinate me.
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