In the past, MariaDB Developer meetings have been open invitation and pre-announced, e.g.:

https://mariadb.org/en/developer-meetings/
http://planet.mysql.com/entry/?id=30418
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2011/02/come-to-lisbon-and-meet-mariadb.html
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2011/11/mariadb-developer-meeting-in-athens.html

And this was even included in Monty's presentation as recently as a couple weeks ago:

http://www.slideshare.net/skysql/mariadb-100-skysql-paris-meetup-171220113

From Slide 47: "Open source development: Anyone can be part of the development at all stages. Developer meetings are public!"

Yet, I've heard from a casual mention on IRC that there is such a meeting next week in Barcelona, and I haven't seen any mention of it on this list or elsewhere:

<montywi> prohaska7: we will have a mariadb developers meeting in Barcelona next week

Are the meetings still public/open? If so, what happened here? Is this a policy change? (I've also seen no private invitation, in case that were in question.)

Regards,

Jeremy