While I am spending my week in Japan, I will be heading back to the US in time for the MySQL User's Conference April 23rd->26th.
I'll be speaking on the following topics:
Tutorial:
MySQL 5.1 In-depthSession:
Replication and Clustering for Web TechnologiesSession:
Understanding MySQL's Pluggable Engine APITutorial:
Writing Your Own Storage Engine On top of those, I will be doing a a number of BOF's related to extending MySQL's technology.
It should be a good time.