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.