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The Awards

The MySQL Community Awards is a community based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically based of past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.

The 2017 MySQL Community Awards event will take place, as usual, in Santa Clara, during the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017

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MySQL Community Awards are coming to an end

January 31, 2020 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, MySQL | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards are coming to an end

I have been considering this for a while, but the 2019 edition of the MySQL Community Awards will be the final year. Over the past couple of years, the Percona Live conference has been expanding well beyond the walls of MySQL. There doesn’t seem to be an obvious event to hold the awards at, where there is both a large number of MySQL community members attending and the winners of the awards are also present.

The beauty of these awards was that there was no corporate entity involved – they were completely from the people and for the people. I was always really happy to give out an award to people that may not always be recognized and to celebrate what they had done.

The awards have been given out for 15 years now and they were picked up by the community from MySQL AB after 2009. I only managed the awards for a few years of the 15 total years, and before me — it was Shlomi Noach, and before him — Henrik Ingo. For a bunch of Award related trivia – see the end of this post: https://mysqlawards.org/mysql-hall-of-fame/

Thank you to the many members of the voting committee, the members of the community who cared enough to nominate, and to Santiago Lertora for hosting/sponsoring the website.

If you have a strong desire to take over stewardship of these awards, please find me on mysqlcommunity slack and I can lend a hand.

MySQL Community Awards 2019: the Winners

June 1, 2019 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, Events, MySQL | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2019: the Winners

The annual MySQL Community Awards were held in Austin, Texas at Percona Live on Wednesday May 29, 2019 during the lunchtime keynotes. The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporations for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. The nominations for the awards come from the community itself.  It is a from-the-community, by-the-community, and for-the-community effort. There is no corporate involvement. Awards are given in the following three categories: Community Contributor (a person), Application (an application / project), and Corporate Contributor (a company). The committee is composed of an independent group of community members of different orientation and opinion, themselves past winners or known contributors to the community. These awards are not to be confused with the ones Oracle gives to the Community around version release time. In addition to the new location for Percona Live, we had a bit of an anomaly with the award winners — two of the winners were not present and had attendees receive the award on their behalf.

Community Contributor Award: two winners
There are two winners for the Community Contributor award this year. They were nominated for very similar reasons: a history of great bug finding for MySQL.

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MySQL Community Awards 2019: Call for Nominations!

March 12, 2019 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, Voting Rounds | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2019: Call for Nominations!

MySQL Community Awards take place every year, during the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference – this year in Austin, TX.

The MySQL Community Awards is a community-based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.

It is a self-appointed, self-declared, self-making-up-the-rules-as-it-goes committee. It is also very aware of the importance of the community; a no-nonsense, non-political, adhering to tradition, self-criticizing committee.

The Call for Nominations is open. We are seeking the community’s assistance in nominating candidates in the following categories:

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MySQL Community Awards 2018: the Winners

April 24, 2018 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, Events, MySQL | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2018: the Winners

The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporations for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. It is a from-the-community, by-the-community, and for-the-community effort. The committee is composed of an independent group of community members of different orientation and opinion, themselves past winners or known contributors to the community.

The 2018 community awards were presented on April 23, 2018, during the Welcome Reception at the Percona Live conference. The winners are:

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2018 Read More

MySQL Community Awards 2018: Nominations close March 15

March 14, 2018 by Emily Slocombe in MySQL, Voting Rounds | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2018: Nominations close March 15

If you’ve been delaying nominating someone or something for a MySQL Community Award, now is the time to submit it. You can submit it quickly via a google form, or go through the trouble of tweeting or emailing it.

After March 15, the Committee will being voting.

As a reminder: there are categories for Community Contributor (a person), Application, and Corporate Contributor. This is a fantastic way to honor new and old community members for the work they do – often in their spare time, and to give thanks to the corporations that help the community.

The original post with more details is here: https://mysqlawards.org/mysql-community-awards-2018/

MySQL Community Awards 2018: Call for Nominations!

March 2, 2018 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, Voting Rounds | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2018: Call for Nominations!

MySQL Community Awards take place, every year as usual, in Santa Clara, during the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference

The MySQL Community Awards is a community-based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically based of past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.

It is a self-appointed, self-declared, self-making-up-the-rules-as-it-goes committee. It is also very aware of the importance of the community; a no-nonsense, non-political, adhering to tradition, self-criticizing committee.

The Call for Nominations is open. We are seeking the community’s assistance in nominating candidates in the following categories:

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MySQL Community Awards 2017: the Winners

May 7, 2017 by Emily Slocombe in Community News, MySQL | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2017: the Winners

The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporations for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. It is a from-the-community, by-the-community, and for-the-community effort. The committee is composed of an independent group of community members of different orientation and opinion, themselves past winners or known contributors to the community.

The 2017 community awards were presented on April 27, 2017, during the keynotes at the Percona Live conference. The winners are:

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2017

  • René Cannaò
    René – for creating and maintaining the ProxySQL project actively.
  • Shlomi Noach
    Shlomi has been a been a conference chairperson for years, ran these mysqlawards for a long time, has been blogging for many, many years, and also has quite a few popular MySQL projects. Thank you Shlomi Noach for all your work on orchestrator and gh-ost.
  • Simon Mudd
    Some quotes from nominations for Simon:  “[he] contributed massively to the quality of MySQL, finding and reporting issues, and suggesting improvements in all areas of MySQL. Through his work at booking.com, he has helped to provide a test bed platform at scale that helps to test future versions, to the benefit of all in the MySQL community. He helps to run the Madrid MySQL user group, blogs, talks at conferences, and even contributes code to the server (logging to syslog).” “He has given us a lot of feedback on upgrade/downgrade. Balancing code cleanup and backwards compatibility is a harder problem than it sounds. We’ve got much better criteria now of what’s OK vs not OK. Everyone that uses mysql benefits.”

MySQL Community Awards: Application of the year 2017

  • gh-ost
    “A truly innovative solution to a long-term issue within the MySQL world, developed openly, with great community excitement around it.” “After all of the schema change tools that are sort of external, using relatively flaky features like triggers, a schema change tool that uses more core parts of the server (binlogging) and provides more features as a result is a pretty big step forward”
  • sysbench
    Sysbench: an extremely widely used tool which had been in 0.x numbering for many, many years.  It recently got a lot more love and finally version 1 was released in January 2017.  Thank you to Alexey Kopytov for sysbench version 1!

MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor of the year 2017

  • GitHub
    GitHub for gh-ost, and for corporate sponsoring. For a number of years now Github has been the community source repository for not only the MySQL server (and other MySQL projects), but also a huge number of community related projects, forks and branches.
  • Percona
    Percona “for the conference, open source tools, blog, webinar, … AND especially for hosting two separate Percona Live events annually — which seems to be the biggest meeting of MySQL+forks users.” For many of us, the conferences are the only time we get to see each other in person.

Congrats to all winners!

Committee members

  • Baron Schwartz
  • Colin Charles
  • Daniël van Eeden
  • Domas Mituzas
  • Eric Herman
  • Fernando Ipar
  • Giuseppe Maxia
  • Jeremy Cole
  • Justin Swanhart
  • Kenny Gryp
  • Mark Leith
  • Morgan Tocker
  • Rasmus Johansson
  • Santiago Lertora
  • Sergei Golubchik
  • Yoshinori Matsunobu

Co-secretaries:

  • Daniel Nichter
  • Emily Slocombe

Special thanks

Thank you to this year’s anonymous sponsor for donating the goblets!

Thank you to Colin Charles for acquiring and transporting the goblets!

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Editorial note: this should have been published after the Percona Live conference in  April 2017.  I forgot – my apologies! 🙂

MySQL Community Awards 2017: Call for Nominations!

March 16, 2017 by Shlomi Noach in Voting Rounds | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2017: Call for Nominations!

The 2017 MySQL Community Awards event will take place, as usual, in Santa Clara, during the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, April 2017.

The MySQL Community Awards is a community based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically based of past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.

It is a self-appointed, self-declared, self-making-up-the-rules-as-it-goes committee. It is also very aware of the importance of the community; a no-nonsense, non-political, adhering to tradition, self criticizing committee.

The Call for Nominations is open. We are seeking the community’s assistance in nominating candidates in the following categories:

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2017

This is a personal award; a winner would a person who has made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This could be via development, advocating, blogging, speaking, supporting, etc. All things go.

MySQL Community Awards: Application of the year 2017

An application, project, product etc. which supports the MySQL ecosystem by either contributing code, complementing its behavior, supporting its use, etc. This could range from a one man open source project to a large scale social service.

MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor of the year 2017

A company who made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This might be a corporate which released major open source code; one that advocates for MySQL; one that help out community members by… anything.

For a list of previous winners, please see MySQL Hall of Fame. Read More

MySQL Community Awards 2016: Call for Nominations!

February 6, 2016 by Shlomi Noach in Voting Rounds | Comments Off on MySQL Community Awards 2016: Call for Nominations!

The 2016 MySQL Community Awards event will take place, as usual, in Santa Clara, during the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, April 2016.

The MySQL Community Awards is a community based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically based of past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.

It is a self-appointed, self-declared, self-making-up-the-rules-as-it-goes committee. It is also very aware of the importance of the community; a no-nonsense, non-political, adhering to tradition, self criticizing committee.

The Call for Nominations is open. We are seeking the community’s assistance in nominating candidates in the following categories:

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2016

This is a personal award; a winner would a person who has made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This could be via development, advocating, blogging, speaking, supporting, etc. All things go.

MySQL Community Awards: Application of the year 2016

An application, project, product etc. which supports the MySQL ecosystem by either contributing code, complementing its behaviour, supporting its use, etc. This could range from a one man open source project to a large scale social service.

MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor of the year 2016

A company who made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This might be a corporate which released major open source code; one that advocates for MySQL; one that help out community members by… anything.

For a list of previous winners, please see MySQL Hall of Fame.

Process of nomination and voting

Anyone can nominate anyone. When nominating, please make sure to provide a brief explanation on why the candidate is eligible to get the award. Make a good case!

The committee will review all nominations and vote; it typically takes two rounds of votes to pick the winners, and a lot of discussion.

There will be up to three winners in each category.

Methods of nomination:

  • Send en email to mysql.community.awards [ at ] gmail.com
  • Assuming you can provide a reasonable description in 140 characters, tweet your nomination at #MySQLAwards.

Please submit your nominations no later than Monday, February 29, 2016.

The committee

Members of the committee are:

  • Baron Schwartz, Colin Charles, Daniël van Eeden, Davi Arnaut, Frederic Descamps, Geoffrey Anderson, Giuseppe Maxia, Justin Swanhart, Mark Leith, Morgan Tocker, Philip Stoev, Ronald Bradford, Santiago Lertora

Jeremy Cole and Shlomi Noach are acting as co-secretaries; non-voting (except for breaking ties).

The committee communicates throughout the nomination and voting process to exchange views and opinions.

The awards

Awards are traditionally donated by some party whose identity remains secret. We are now securing the donation, but if you feel an urgent need to be an anonymous donator, please contact us in private, and thank you!

Support

This is a community effort; we ask for your support in spreading the word and of course in nominating candidates. Thanks!