{"id":3296,"date":"2013-04-19T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2013-04-19T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:20:14","slug":"mysql-community-portraits-needs-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/mysql-community-portraits-needs-your\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Community Portraits needs your $$"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an Indiegogo fundraising effort<\/a> for Julian Cash<\/a> to come to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo<\/a> this year to take your photo! I’ve thrown in a bunch of money to help make this happen. Why? It’s much<\/strong> much much<\/strong><\/em> cheaper than getting any professional photo shoot done, and it’s by the awesome Julian, who makes pretty awesome photos.<\/p>\n

You’ll get full resolution images too! Basically, this is the cheapest way you’re going to get this quality of photos done of yourself outside of dating a professional portrait photographer. Since I’m not dating a professional portrait photographer, this is an excellent and affordable way to have some truly awesome and up to date photos that I can use.<\/p>\n

I went and bought the Gold level sponsorship as I feel that $250 is a small price to pay (especially considering Julian’s previous excellent work). You can support it with more $ or less $ (even $0), I chose $250 as it meant I could claim, at least for a short time, that I’ve over half funded it :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an Indiegogo fundraising effort for Julian Cash to come to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this year to take your photo! I’ve thrown in a bunch of money to help make this happen. Why? 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