Two well known sea creatures in Maria's vision You might have heard the story of how we picked a sea-lion as our logo. Now that this lovely beast has been with us for a while, we think it’s high time to give it a name and of course we turn to our wonderful community for suggestions. The rules are simple: complete this form, telling us what you think we should name the sea lion and why. Later, Maria Widenius will pick her favorite from the submissions, and the winner will get a collection of MariaDB t-shirts and other swag, an artwork by Maria, and of course eternal fame!…

Earlier this week we were happy to announce that MariaDB will have its own devroom at FOSDEM21, taking place on 6 February 2021, and now the CfP is open. FOSDEM is free to attend, and no registration is necessary. It's aimed at free and open-source developers, so engineering and DBA-related topics such as: best practices migrating to MariaDB MariaDB features optimising on particular hardware are all welcome. Submissions that miss the mark, such as marketing talks, are not welcome. We are expecting far more submissions than we can accommodate, so we are looking for 20 minute talks (with an extra 5m for questions) to accommodate as many high-quality speakers as possible.…