Report of the 11th Firebird Developers Day
The report of the 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day Conference is now available either in English and Portuguese, and contains several pictures from the conference day.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Last day to subscribe for the Firebird Developers Day
Today (20-Aug) is the last day to subscribe for the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference.
FDD in the news
Firebird Developers Day is in today (15/Aug) editions of the “Jornal de Piracicaba” and “A Tribuna Piracicabana” newspapers.
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FDD will receive people from 14 different states
Brazil is a really big country, and the 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day conference will receive attendees from 14 different states. There are people travelling more than 2.000km to come! The map below has a partial list of the origins of those people (click the marks to check the distance to the conference place). It is still a partial list, since the subscriptions are still open!
Deadline for submiting papers to international conference
Today, 15/July, is the deadline to submit talks proposals for the Firebird International Conference, to happen in Prague, in the end of October. More information here.
FireServer site is online!
The official site for the FireServer Project is now on-line! You can find basic information about the project. There are no ISO downloads available yet. We expect to have the first ISO until the end of August.
Fireserver Project is coming
Fireserver is a project of a custom linux server distro that includes Firebird as default database server, and can be used freely by any company who want to simplify their customer’s servers administration and support.
You can read a full article about the Fireserver project in opensource.com/life/14/6/fireserver-project
News about Firebird 3 release
Here are some news about the next FB 3 releases time-frame, coming direct from Dmitry Yemanov:
We’re approaching Beta 1 (hopefully to be released in July), with one more Beta to follow and then RC appearing this Autumn, probably around the conference time.
Firebird Roadmap can be seen here.
Firebird Developers Day
The 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (Brazilian) Conference will happen in 30/August, in Piracicaba-SP. More details to be announced soon.