Category: Foundation
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MariaDB Foundation financial report for 2017
The 2017 accounting for the MariaDB Foundation has been completed and the key figures are:
- Total income: 476,952.38 USD
- Total expenses: 476,952.38 USD
- Net income after adjustments: 153,890.65 USD
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Testing Rocket.Chat and Zulip
The MariaDB Foundation is publicly testing two new communications tools, Rocket.Chat and Zulip, and we’re seeing if they can meet a few of our requirements.
Roughly in order of importance:
1) Open Source 2) A tool similar in functionality to the proprietary Slack. 3) A tool for internal staff chat, replacing some of the proprietary options used at present. 4) A tool with a good hosted solution so that we do not have to worry about hosting and maintaining. 5) […]
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2017 in the MariaDB Foundation
2017 was an excellent year for MariaDB.
The Foundation was joined by several new sponsoring members; IBM, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and Microsoft. This was the first year the Foundation did not run out of funds at the end of the year and we were able to fully compensate our staff. The members have also helped us reach wider ecosystems and helped the Foundation in its mission of supporting continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem.
In 2017, MariaDB […]
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MariaDB Foundation Board welcomes new members
2017 has been very successful for the entire MariaDB ecosystem. There have been great strides on all fronts including adoption, funding, collaboration, products, services and of course, in the development and maintenance of the MariaDB Server code itself.
We are also proud to announce that this is also reflected in the MariaDB Foundation’s board, which saw several new members elected to it in 2017. In June 2017 the board elected 3 new members: Xiaobin Lin from Alibaba Cloud, Todd Boyd […]
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Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum level sponsor
MariaDB Foundation today announced that Microsoft has become a platinum sponsor. The sponsorship will help the Foundation in its goals to support continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, and to drive adoption, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.
“Joining the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum member is a natural next step in Microsoft’s open source journey. In addition to Microsoft Azure’s strong support for open source technologies, developers can use their favorite database as a […]
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Presentations from the 2017 MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen
The following sessions were held on the two presentation days of the MariaDB Developers Unconference in Shenzhen.
Day 1
- MariaDB in 2017 (Otto Kekäläinen)
- What’s in the pipeline for 10.3 and beyond (Monty) – Slides
- AliSQL Roadmap (Xiao Bin)
- JSON support in MariaDB (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – Slides
- Replication (Lixun Peng) – Slides
- Encryption key management (Ben)
- InnoDB in MariaDB 10.2, 10.3 and beyond (Marko Mäkelä) – Slides
- Column Compression – Overview, and how it differs from other implementations (Sergey Vojtovich) – Slides
- MTR Demonstration (Daniel Black)
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Tencent Cloud Becomes a Platinum Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
The MariaDB Foundation today announced that Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing service provided by Tencent, has become its platinum sponsor. The sponsorship will help the Foundation ensure continuous collaboration amongst stakeholders within the MariaDB ecosystem, to drive adoption and serve the ever-growing community of users and developers.
Tencent Cloud has already sponsored the MariaDB Foundation by volunteering Bin Cheng, a developer specialized in replication and InnoDB.
The MariaDB Foundation is also sponsored by Tencent Game DBA team and Tencent TDSQL, […]
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New MariaDB Foundation staff member sponsored by Tencent Cloud: Bin Cheng
The MariaDB Foundation is happy to announce that a new staff member, Bin Cheng, has started working as a Senior Developer of MariaDB. Bin’s work is sponsored by Tencent Cloud, and he also holds the title of Expert Engineer at Tencent Cloud.
Tencent is one of the largest IT companies in China and the world, with a focus on Internet services and gaming. It provides services for hundreds of millions of people via its flagship products like QQ and WeChat.