New snapshot builds will be unavailable over the weekend and possibly until Tuesday GMT, due to an infrastructure problem. Sorry!
It was with sorrow that we learned of the death last month of David S. Rushby, aged 27, in a drowning accident in the Black Sea at Anapa, Russia.
The official announcements for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards are up now, here.
Firebird is to have a two-part slot in this year's Entwickler Konferenz in Frankfurt, Germany. EKON runs in parallel with the all-Europe Codegear (Borland) Developer Conference at the end of September, but our presenter, Thomas Steinmaurer, assures us that this double session will be pure Firebird, unfettered by any requirement to merge tracks with any Codegear products.
Firebird scooped up two of the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards, announced today (US time) at the OSCON CCA Awards party. Firebird wins in the Best Project for the Enterprise and Best User Support categories. The announcements are not up yet but a guy called Matt Aslay posted the results to the blogs at news.com. We understand a recognition will be coming our way in the form of a donation to the Foundation.
H-K Software is staging this year's conference in Hamburg, Germany, from October 18 to 20. Currently speakers are being called to submit papers, either live or as a digital presentation on DVD. Submit 30-minute or 60-minute session proposals in English or German by August 15. Questions, email.
More than 500 attended the fourth Firebird Developers' Day in Piracicaba, Brazil last weekend. Full report with pictures.
Due to some trouble we ran into with the batch update, we have to take the tracker off-line for short maintenance. But, as we have some other larger maintenance in pipeline, we'll take this unscheduled opportunity to do it all at once. So the tracker will be down for several hours now (in the worst case, for the rest of today). Tracker Admins
There will be a Firebird Rendez-vous at the Libre Software Meeting in Amiens next Thursday, July 12. If you cannot be there, there will be a video broadcast. Some sessions will be in English, others in French.
Firebird is a finalist in four categories of the SourceForge Community Choice Awards beanfest for 2007. For once, we're not looking at a spitting contest for database engine groupies: in each category the Firebird project is up against 9 other projects all selected for excellence from hundreds of thousands of SF projects. Categories are Best Tool or Utility, Best Project for the Enterprise, Best User Support and Best Project Overall.