Bringing fresh blood to the MySQL Council

The MySQL Council has been operational for more than one year, with mixed fortunes. As an early member, I am glad to be a member, and I feel that I have done something useful by participating in this organism. The council is young, and the MySQL community is variegated and sparse. The enthusiasm of the first volunteers must be reinforced by the injection of new members, who can contribute fresh views and keep the council on their toes. I am glad to see more names coming up, and, as some of my fellow council members, I volunteered to serve for another year. But this doesn't need to be my decision. I will stay unless we get feedback on the contrary, and the same will be for the other people in the list below. ⁽¹⁾ Please use the feedback form to voice your ideas and suggestions about the new council. Anything goes: who should be or not be there, what you would like the council to do, and how the next council should be created.

First Name	Last Name	Title	Company	Country
Alexandre	Almeida	CTO	HTI Tecnologia	Brazil
Sheeri	Cabral	DBA/Architect	Mozilla	United States
Laine	Campbell	Principal and CEO	PalominoDB	United States
Patrick	Galbraith	Senior Engineer Cloud Data Services	Hewlett Packard	United States
Bradley	Kuszmaul	Chief Architect	Tokutek	United States
Giuseppe	Maxia	Director of Quality Assurance	Continuent	Italy
Sarah	Novotny	CIO	Meteor Entertainment	United States
Marco	Tusa	Cluster Technical Leader	Pythian	Canada
Daniel	van Eeden	Consultant	Snow B.V.	Netherlands

The deadline for feedback is March 23, 2012. Let your voice be heard!

⁽¹⁾ Just for the record: all the people in this list have volunteered, in answer to a public call for candidates.