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Firebird Articles/Documentation Contest

March 15, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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!

March 14, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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

March 13, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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

March 11, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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?

March 8, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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

March 8, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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

March 8, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

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

Nine artworks already received! Keep it coming!

March 1, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

We already have 9 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest. Hurry up! Deadline for submissions is 15/March.

Wanna win a FastReport license?

February 28, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Fast Report becomes a sponsor of MindTheBird! campaign. The Firebird ambassador, who will attract most of all new members to the MindTheBird! until March 5, will get free Fast Report Studio license. New member should mention referrer name in the first email to MindTheBird! Google Group.

First artwork received

February 25, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

We received the first artwork for the FB 10th anniversary contest!

Keep it coming! The contest page will be updated from time to time to include new submissions.

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