O’Reilly Media will be hosting the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, California: April 12 - 15, 2010.
This active group of over six-hundred members has been around since 2003 and meets monthly in New York. It's sponsored by MySQL and is organized by one of the employees of Sun MySQL.
If you work with MySQL regularly and need a book on the topic with an easy to follow writing style and helpful examples, please consider buying MySQL in a Nutshell. If you already have the first edition, the second edition recently came out: it’s much better than the first edition and has had some great reviews. Click on the cover art work here and you’ll be taken to Amazon’s site where you can purchase a copy and have it mailed to you.