There are approximately 3 weeks left to submit your MySQL DBA-related presentations to Collaborate 2011, held in Orlando, FL April 10-14. Experience has shown that the best presentations are submitted well in advance of the deadline, so now is a great time to submit while you have plenty of time to create a good abstract.
Information and the link to submit abstracts are at http://collaborate11.ioug.org/. I posted a cheat sheet on how to fill out the Call for Presentations for MySQLers a while ago, and as always feel free to ask me any questions.
As a refresher, here is the list of MySQL topics:
Admin (includes deployment, monitoring, security, backups, maintenance, installation/upgrade, OS-specific talks)
Cloud Computing
Data warehousing / BI
Replication
Storage Engines
Performance/HA/Scalability/Clustering
If you have a DBA or operations-related presentation that does not fit into those topic areas, that's OK too -- those are just guidelines.
More conferences means there
More conferences means there are more chances for interesting people to give interesting talks. Thanks for working to make sure this will be a good conference for MySQL people.