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MySQL Conf 2008 special: auction of unique signed T-shirt

Goodness, I thought I’d never find it. Moving a few times causes a lot of havoc. But, here it is:
MySQL-2003-special-tshirt-front MySQL-2003-special-tshirt-back
So, what is it, who’s on it, and what are my intentions with it?

It’s a 2002 summer (Northern hemisphere) edition MySQL t-shirt (“Power & Freedom” theme), size S. It was signed at the MySQL Cancun dev staff meeting, October 2003. This was the first dev meeting with the NDB Cluster team, and assorted others. I got this shirt signed by all present (except I notice I didn’t actually sign it myself 😉
Let’s see if I can decode the names…

David Axmark (co-founder), Mikael Ronstrom (NDB architect), Pekka Nousiainen (NDB dev), Lenz Grimmer (build engineer, now community relations), Mike Zinner (GUI dev lead), Joao Prado Maia (Eventum), Jorge del Conde (dev,support), Kaj Arno (VP of lots), Megan Wagner (event management, Matt’s wife), Greg Weir (Novell dev), Carsten Pederson (certification manager), a name I can’t make out right now, Brian Aker (server architecture), Mark Matthews (Connector/J), Lars Thalman (NDB docs, now replication dev), Tobias Asplund (trainer/consultant), Harrison Fisk (trainer, now support engineering), Magnus Svensson (NDB engineer), Paul DuBois (docs magician), Stefan Hinz (docs lead), Matt Wagner (dev manager), Tom Basil (support director), and Monty himself.

The two drawings are by My and Max, Monty’s oldest kids and the alleged source of the product naming. And that, my friends, makes this t-shirt rather special! You want to own this one-of-a-kind piece of history, don’t you? Now’s your chance: it will be auctioned during the MySQL Quiz night at the MySQL Conference 2008 (Wednesday 7-8.30pm).

What happens with the proceeds? I think EFF is a worthy target that most people will approve of. And for that reason I won’t let it go cheap. Once you own it, it’s up to you to decide if you want any others (including myself) to sign it, for now I will just keep it safe and bring it to the conf.

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