Drizzle

Please join me in welcoming Andrew Hutchings to the Rackspace Drizzle team. Andrew has been a very active community contributor to the Drizzle project so we are very excited to have him on board now working on Drizzle. Well ok, his first official day is tomorrow but he has been very busy with contributions over the past number of weeks!

Andrew lives in a small town in Northamptonshire, England with his wife and two sons. Known as LinuxJedi to many online, he is a community code contributor to several open source projects. He was previously a Senior MySQL Support Engineer for Sun/Oracle specialising in MySQL Cluster. He is also the co-author of a book on the MySQL Plugin API. You may have already seen his blog on Planet Drizzle.

Welcome to the team Andrew!

We are very happy to announce that David Shrewsbury is joining the Rackspace Drizzle team today. David has been a steady community contributor to the Drizzle project so we are very excited to have him on board full time working on Drizzle.

David has a M.S. in Computer Science from Appalachian State University and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina. In his previous lives, David has been a developer, database architect, and even worked as a MySQL Support Engineer focusing on Cluster support.

When not trying to wrap his head around some obscure piece of code, David can often be found either on the golf course, reading books from the dustier corners of the library, or sampling the latest microbrew.

Welcome to the team David!

We are very happy to announce another addition to the Rackspace Drizzle team today. Patrick has been a QA Engineer at MySQL / Sun / Oracle since 2007, where he focused on code coverage tools, maintaining and updating the MySQL test suite, and testing with the Random Query Generator.

Prior to that, he worked in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida's data warehousing division, did internships for the Mayo Clinic and the NFL as a student, and spent 5 years in the Navy doing electrical work on the mighty P-3C Orion aircraft.

Patrick currently lives in Jacksonville, FL with his wife and a crazed Boston Terrier. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of North Florida and is a MySQL certified developer. In his free time, he likes to run, read, and think of ways to work with obscenely large amounts of data.

Welcome to the team Patrick!

Great response from our participation in the Google Summer of Code, see Jay's email for full details.

We had a very successful Drizzle Developer Day last Friday right after the MySQL user conference Check out Eric's blog for a quick summary.

Thanks to Eric and Padraig, Drizzle has been accepted as its own project for Google's Summer of Code 2010. See Padraig's blog for more details. Any students who are interested in working on Drizzle should check out our ideas page on our wiki.

Check out the recent Rackspace blog and video from Rackspace System Architect Adrian Otto announcing the Drizzle team.

We finally have our location for Drizzle Developer Day 2010, this year it will be at the Santa Clara Convention Center, rooms 209 and 210. As we previously announced the event will be Friday April 16th right after the MySQL User Conference, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Please make sure and sign up at http://drizzle.org/wiki/Drizzle_Developer_Day_2010_signup. Space will be limited and it is filling up fast.

Also, to make this day a success, please provide your input on discussion topics at http://drizzle.org/wiki/Drizzle_Developer_Day_2010

Hope to see you there!

A lot of you have been wondering where the Drizzle developers who were working at Sun have landed after the Oracle acquisition. As I'm sure you have seen by now we are very happy to now be working on Drizzle at Rackspace Cloud. Check out the blogs from Eric, Jay, Monty and Stewart.

-Lee

Check out Brian's blog which details all the features we are targeting for our next release, code name Cherry. Actually in launchpad these are termed "series" and within each series we are defining two week milestones to track our progress. Currently looking to complete Cherry by the end of April.