Just a few more left for voting
19/March is the deadline for participating in the first round of the voting process to elect the best commemorative logo for the FB 10th anniversary. Still did not vote? Do it now!
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!
Ten years of Firebird
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Milan Babuskov speaks about the 10th anniversary of Firebird in his blog.
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Time to vote for the best artwork!
We received 45 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest and now you can vote in your preferred artwork!
Help choosing the best artwork to celebrate the 10th Firebird anniversary.
Firebird Articles/Documentation Contest
New MindTheBird contest: FB 2.5 features documentation contest
Write articles/documentation about any of the new Firebird 2.5 features and you can win a prize of USD 500 (1st place) or USD 200 (honourable mention prizes).
Rules:
- Article format should be Word (doc/docx), Open Office or RTF.
- It must contain minimum of 2.000 words.
- It must be clear and easy to understand, and if possible, contain practical examples of code using the feature subject of the article.
- It must be written in English (not generated by automated translation, please).
- All the submitted articles needs to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (cc by).
- All articles will be published at MindTheBird site and at Scribd.com.
Deadline for articles is April 16, 2010. Contest will be judged by Firebird Core developers: Dmitry Yemanov, Vlad Khorsun and Alex Peshkoff.
The authors of the best articles will get money as a prize (needs to have account in PayPal to receive the money).
Materials should be sent to admin@mindthebird.com
Attention contest participants!
Some authors submitted a grayscale image as the B/W version of the artwork. If you are one of them, please send a corrected version (B/W = black and white, only two colors, no grayscale) until tomorrow (15/March – 23:59 GMT) or the artwork (together with its full color pair) will be excluded from the contest.
Monday is the last day to submit your artwork
If you plan to participate in our FB 10th anniversary logo contest, you need to hurry up, since Monday (15/March) is the last day we will be accepting submissions. Artworks received after 23:59 (GMT) will not enter in the contest.
The voting to elect the best artwork will be done in two steps. In the first step, we will select the five best ranked artworks. In the second step, people will have to choose the best artwork among that five. The author of the winner artwork will receive the prize of USD 500!
Firebird Conference in Ukraine
There will be an one day Firebird Conference in Ukraine (April 23, 2010), with the presence of many of the Core Team members, like Dmitry Yemanov, Alex Peshkov and Vlad Khorsun.
Check a translated version with info about the conference here.
Why IBSurgeon supports Firebird?
Last years we saw amazing growth of Firebird, both in terms of users and in terms of installations (official Firebird installer for Windows has optional URL to notify Google Analytics about fresh install, and it shows more than 2000 Firebird installations every day and it grows over time!).
Read full article.
Last week for submitting artwork for the contest
This is the last week for submitting artworks for the Firebird’s 10th anniversary logo contest. We already have 18 submissions! Check the contest page to see the samples.
Firebird Mythbusters
New presentation “Firebird Mythbusters” http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/firebird-mythbusters
Use it for competitive talks to crush the most annoying myths around
Firebird.
Gentle reminder – we still need localized versions of MindTheBird
presentation “Firebird Intro” and “Why Firebird”.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team