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+title: "MariaDB India Meetup #1"
+link: "https://luma.com/ewss2pk3"
+description: "The MariaDB Foundation's first online meetup for the Indian MariaDB community: talks and open Q&A with MariaDB engineers and contributors, opened by Michael “Monty” Widenius and Anna Widenius."
+date: 2026-11-12
+format: online
+countries:
+- India
+event_year:
+- '2026'
+subcategories:
+- Meetups
+event-formats:
+- Online
+organizers:
+- Community
+registration_url: "https://luma.com/ewss2pk3"
+---
+
+The MariaDB Foundation hosts its first meetup for the Indian MariaDB community on **November 12, 2026, 7:00–8:30 pm IST** (13:30–15:00 UTC). It is free and online, on Zoom. Michael "Monty" Widenius, who started both MySQL and MariaDB, joins Anna Widenius to open the evening with the MariaDB story: why it was created, what the Foundation protects, and how MariaDB differs from MySQL. Talks from MariaDB engineers and contributors follow (speakers and topics to be announced), then open Q&A. The meetup is for backend developers, DBAs, students, open source contributors, and anyone running or planning to run MariaDB, and is the first in a series of MariaDB Foundation events for India this winter.