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After the success of our recent BIRT plug-in contest, we started thinking about another contest to keep the great BIRT community contributions coming in. We wanted a contest with a low barrier of entry allowing more users of BIRT, even new ones, to get involved. What we came up with is the 'BIRT Style Contest'. The contest allows BIRT users to show off their creative side by submitting a BIRT style example to the BIRT Exchange DevShare or Marketplace.

Actuate will award a Kindle Fire to each of the best three style examples submitted to either DevShare or the BIRT Exchange Marketplace between January 9, 2012 and February 9, 2012.

Styles are used within BIRT designs allowing you to create richly formatted web content. These styles can be applied directly within the BIRT Designer, imported from existing CSS stylesheets, and referenced at runtime to match your existing web application look and feel. Styles can also be applied dynamically based on parameters or scripting creating a customized experience for the user.

Some BIRT style examples might include:

• Clever use or colors (seasons, team colors)
  
• Style applied dynamically based on time of day, or year.
  
• Style applied based on external data like weather or regional info
  
• Your unique BIRT style example

Any DevShare submission that makes use of a BIRT style will be considered for this contest.

Contest rules, details and more suggestions can be found on the Contest Details and Examples page.

I look forward to seeing some more great contributions!