We welcome everyone to Percona community for developing, installing, running, optimizing, and learning everything around open source databases and infrastructure.
This is a repository for Community Website. It contains information about Percona community events, activities, and ways you could contribute to Percona open source software and participate in the life of the community.
You can find the following information on the website:
- Community Blog - a technical blog about open source where everyone can post their content.
- Community Events - information about events for community organized by Percona.
- The HOSS Talks FOSS Podcast - videos of the podcast with technical experts talking about open source technologies.
- Community Meetups for MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, and PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) - videos, transcripts and announcements of live-streamed meetups with experts.
- Surveys - fill some of them in and participate in swag giveaway.
- Information about contributing to Percona open source software if you are found of: a. MySQL b. PostgreSQL c. MongoDB d. PMM
If you are ready to step in and contribute to Percona software or this website, you can start with checking out the website section dedicated to contributions. You may also find more technical information in our contribution guidelines.
We would love to see more authors of technical content in our Community Blog. We accept any technical posts about databases and open source technologies. Also, we have no requirements for the uniqueness of the article. If your post is published on another resource, you can duplicate it here and get more attention.
We understand that the process may be a bit complicated for you. So you can simply send us your post in PDF/Google Doc/Markdown format by email at [email protected].
Here are the quick steps to publish the post. You can find the detailed description of each step in this article.
The site runs on Hugo engine. It turns Markdown pages into HTML very quickly and easily. We also use GitHub and GitHub Pages for free website hosting.
- Fork our repository "percona/community" and git clone that fork on your computer.
- (Optional) install Hugo engine
- Run the Hugo server in the source code folder of the site with the command
hugo server -Dand open a local copy of the site in your browser atlocalhost:1313 - Create a separate branch for your changes.
- Add information about you to the
content/authors/folder. - Add your photo to the folder
assets/blog/authors. - If your post contains images, load the pre-made images into the
assets/blog/[YEAR]/[month]directory. If there is no directory, create one. - Add your post in Markdown to the
content/blogdirectory. Please, specify the name of your file according to the example: "Date-name-in-style-URL" ('2022-02-12-how-to-post.md'). - Save the changes in Git and create a commit.
- Push changes to your repository on GitHub.
- Open your repository on GitHub and create a pull request.
We will receive your pull request, check it and merge to our site. The post will be published after that.
By publishing your post on our blog, you will become a contributor to the repository and community. We will provide you with a special gift.
By contributing, you become a Percona Community member and agree to our Code of Conduct.
If you have any questions, please contact us:
By the way, you can even just send us the text of the post and we will publish it ourselves for you!