Firebird events and conferences all over the world
In the 6th edition of the FDD conference, we will have the presence of Vlad Horsun (thanks IBSurgeon) and Dmitry Kuzmenko, as international speakers, together with a great set of speakers from the Brazilian community. Attendees can register online now.
FDD is an annual conference that takes place in Brazil, organized by FireBase, and has an average of 500-600 attendees each edition.
The planned two-day event at the Computing Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 8 – 9 May 2009 has been cancelled, unfortunately, due to the low number of people registering to attend.
Picture of the day on the Firebird events page
Mustapha Abubakar during his Firebird presentation at the Bayero University (in March)
Here is the list of papers for EFBT09 in May 2009
http://www.efbt.uni-erlangen.de/vortraege/detail-db.shtml
As till now the willingness of sponsors and the number of applications for the conference is both very low we have to decide in short after Easter wether it can take place at all. So hurry up with registration!
Registration via http://www.efbt.uni-erlangen.de/interaktiv/anmeldung.shtml
If you don’t understand Goethe’s language then google can do it or read the events page at firebirdsql.org
Transcripts of the presentations from the 2008 Firebird Conference in Bergamo, Italy, are now available for free download. Registration required first.
We are proud to announce that the 6th edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference will take place in Piracicaba, SP, at 04/July/2009. The conference site with all the details will be online in May/09.
We invite all the people who can understand Portuguese to be with us in this very special day!
Here is how to install fb_adapter for Rails on Ubuntu (It didn’t had any README so i had to figure it out on the Train to the Ruby Meetingwhere I will talk a little about Firebird and Ruby)
In July/2008, Dmitry Yemanov (chief of the Firebird Development Team) was in Brazil to participate in the 5º Firebird Developers Day. He presented, to a selected number of people, a special 3h Master Class named “Firebird Performance in Detail“, discussing advanced technical aspects of Firebird RDBMS that can directly influence in the performance of the database server.
The Master Class video (screencast) is now available in the form of signed electronic download. The audio is in English. More details, including a sample video and buying link can be found here.
Conference papers DVD is arrived, and you can buy directly from p-tools e-commerce site. It contains all papers and samples from 6th Firebird International Conference held in Bergamo at the end of September 2008.
Hello,
For German language please have a look at our DBA Blog:
http://www.blogs.uni-erlangen.de/db/stories/2717/
to shorten the time to the next firebird conference there will be a
small firebird day in Germany, Erlangen at the RRZE
(www.rrze.de) (local computing center of the university
Erlangen-Nürnberg) from 8th to 9th May 2009.
We’ll start at Friday morning and end at Saturday evening.
There might be a pre day presentation for sponsors on 7 May.
The main track will be in German but it’s also possible to have some
English talks as the once of Dimitry and Vlad for example and
international after track meetings.
-= Today I’m looking for sponsors and speakers =-
