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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
We already have 9 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest. Hurry up! Deadline for submissions is 15/March.
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.
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.
Leonardo posted in his blog about developing web applications using Delphi/FreePascal. The article uses Firebird 2.1 as data source.
