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MindtheBird articles contest – deadline is 16/April

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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).

Send your article to admin@mindthebird.com.

Stored Procedures contest, with prizes!

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From MindTheBird people:

Hello All,

Are you true master in Firebird SQL? Participate in Stored Procedures contest and win valuable prizes!

Participants should submit stored procedure in pure Firebid SQL and embedded functions (SDF) only which performs some common task(s) – virtually anything any useful tasks.

It can be implementations of some mathematics transformations, or transforming numeric representation of number into words (like input = 21, output = “twenty one”), or anything that demonstrates the power and flexibility of Firebird stored procedures.

We’ll choose the most powerful and interesting stored procedures.
There will be 3 winners, each of them will receive tool by his choice
from the pool of prizes from MindTheBird sponsors:
http://www.mindthebird.com/benefits.html.

All procedures should be submited under Creative Commons or Mozilla Public License or Apache License. Submitter must be the author of the procedure.

All procedures with short description and reference to the author will be published at www.mindthebird.com

Please submit demo SQL scripts with stored procedures’ texts to sp at mindthebird.com or right here in the group. Please notice that demo SQL script should work out-of-the-box to create necessary objects and demonstrate the value of procedure.

Firebird Articles/Documentation Contest

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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

Monday is the last day to submit your artwork

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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!

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