Open Source Database technical collaboration mailing list

[Daniel John Debrunner <dj...@debrunners.com>]

At the Open Source Database Conference (http://www.opendbcon.net/) in
Frankfurt last week, MySQL AB hosted a dinner for the database speakers
 and others involved in open source databases. The idea was to see how
open source databases could collaborate. Øystein Grøvlen and myself were
at the dinner, along with folks from MySQL, Postgres, Firebird, Hsqldb
and SQLLite.

One idea that came up was a public, archived mailing list where
technical discussions could occur. This list is now active at:

http://lists.osdbconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers

As Derby developers you may want to subscribe.

The other main idea was for an official open source database consortium,
though I think that got lost in the exact purpose of such a group.
Issues arose around what would being a member mean and should commercial
databases companies be excluded, which naturally would have excluded
almost everyone at the table from joining. :-)

Dan.