Just a remind about the Firebird 2.5 documentation contest from MindTheBird people: deadline is approaching! Don’t miss the chance to contribute with docs/articles and maybe win the USD 500 and USD 200 prizes!
Read more about the contest.
The winner artwork of the 10th anniversary of Firebird logo contest is:
Congratulations to Clebson Moreno, who will receive the prize of USD 500!
Thanks to all the participants who sent their artworks, and all the voters too!
In a few days we will provide the logo in different sizes so people can include it in their websites, etc.
We have developed an utility for converting databases into new Firebird
2.5 format.
It is free and open source.
Andrei Kireyeu
There’s a bug introduced between PHP 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 that affects
handling of Firebird blobs on 64bit machines. Having moved some of my servers to 64bit Slackware (Slamd64 to be more precise) I run into
this problem.
Read full post in Milan Babuskov blog.
The final round for choosing the best artwork for celebrating the 10th Firebird anniversary is now open!
Voting will be open until 24/March 29h59 (GMT).
Thanks for all who participated in the first round of the voting process for electing the best 10th anniversary celebration logo. Below are the five finalists, who will be in the final phase of the election process.
I wish to thanks all the participants for taking their time and efforts to create and submitting their arts, making this contest a real success!
Finalists:
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
A new poll, with only the five finalists, will be put on-line in the next monday (22/March), and then people will finally choose what is the best logo, whose author will receive the prize of USD 500.
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!
 |
Milan Babuskov speaks about the 10th anniversary of Firebird in his blog.
|
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.
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:
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
