For of those of you who have yet to notice, we are having a free Sphinx Conference Day in Moscow, Russia Sunday the 24th of October 2010. So if you are in the area take a look at the conference registration page and let us know if you are coming.

If you are already registered and itching to attend yet require further details, we posted the much anticipated  update on the Venue and Conference Schedule to the conference registration page. If you did not receive an email from our conference team referencing the above link and update then please let us know ASAP because you are probably not registered for the conference.
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Just wanted to give you a quick update, that we will be at OSCON in Portland Oregon, from the 19th-23rd of July. Peter Zaitsev of Percona & the MySQL Performance Blog, will be moderating a Birds of a Feather Session on Sphinx in 2010, slated for Thursday the 22nd of July at 7 PM.

If you are in the area or up for a casual meeting to discuss your use or would like to learn more about Sphinx please let us know by contacting Rich Kelm, who will  be representing us at OSCON.

As planned I’m currently in Zagreb, Croatia and I just gave a talk on Sphinx at #dorscluc earlier today. Grab the slides here at this “Meet the Sphinx” link if you want to find out what was in those secret bullets at the bottom that the presentation machine chopped off :)

I will also be doing a workshop tomorrow again, and another workshop is scheduled in Moscow at Devconf, on May 18th. It will be in Russian. You can check out the workshop plan and register on Devconf website. I will be covering all the tasks people are, in my experience, typically facing so it should be a perfect match (aka a crash course) for people new into Sphinx.

Just wanted to post a quick update that our Birds-of-a-Feather session proposal for MySQL Conference got approved too, so come join us on Tuesday, April 13th, 7:00 PM PST if you are around Santa Clara Convention Center. We’ll be discussing all things full-text search, including Sphinx, of course, but not really limited to it. Evening BOF sessions were free to attend previous years, so consider it even if you aren’t attending the conference itself.

Now if you are, I couldn’t help myself but plug a reminder of a Sphinx: full-text search in 2010 talk the next evening, that is, Wednesday, April 14th, 5:15 PM PST. Note that the talk will be an overview of newly added features rather than a bird-view of the entire system. So if you haven’t used Sphinx before, I suggest fetching a copy and going through some tutorial before the talk. Even though we aren’t pushing our install as “the famous 5-minute” one, it still doesn’t take more than that. (So, too bad this punch line is taken.)