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I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for April 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We even give a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls (but make sure you're logged in so it will be assigned to you).

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

We are still looking for more developers to build new BIRT plug-ins as part of the Plug In 2 BIRT contest. There are less than two weeks left before the deadline -- but that's plenty of time to get your code built and submitted.

You say you've never built a plug-in before?
No problem, they are easier to build than you might think! The contest web site has lots of tutorials and examples to help you get started. Plus you'll find a wealth of ideas and suggestions there for plug-ins that many BIRT users have asked for.

Take a look and give it a shot for a chance to win an iPad (we're giving 3 away). We'd love to see what you can come up with.

I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for March 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We even give a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls (but make sure you're logged in so it will be assigned to you).

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for February 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We even give a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls (but make sure you're logged in so it will be assigned to you).

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for January 2013. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We even give a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls (but make sure you're logged in so it will be assigned to you).

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for December 2012. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we will evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We also added a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls.

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

The winner of the BIRT Exchange Contributor of the Month Contest for November 2012 is Tapash Kumar Sahu (Tapash Kumar Sahu) for his contribution to BIRT Exchange titled: Twitter JSON Search ODA.

Tapash said, "The idea behind implementing Twitter Search plugin (using JSON) was to create a plugin for BIRT to follow any tweet posted by anyone without requiring authentication in twitter. It serves the purpose of following someone and finding a tweet and series of events or tweets. It is user centric and follows the twitter paradigm, by literally following someone on twitter. The user doesn’t require a twitter account to use this plugin. Since this is a Search API, there are lots of ways to enhance it using authentication which are some enhancements I intend to bring in."

Tapash works at Subex Limited as a System Analyst on a framework team. He has worked on integrating BIRT with their Web based products and started looking at BIRT as a BI Tool for an upcoming product when he encountered the Plug In 2 BIRT contest. Tapash said, "I don't have much competency in usage of BIRT as I mostly worked on Integration of BIRT with our products. So working on this plugin enhanced my knowledge of BIRT in usage point of view. Now I am pretty much comfortable using BIRT. I'm really thankful to the BIRT Community and the DevShare contributors as I was able to get lots of help and information from your website."

Tapash chose a $200 Amazon Gift Card for his award.

If you"ve cooked up something that you can share with the BIRT Exchange community, please post it soon! You can create a tutorial, build a BIRT application, template or component, or write up some of the tips and solutions to problems you've run into during the past -- anything that's helped you use BIRT more effectively will probably be useful to others too. And don't forget the BIRT Exchange Marketplace. A code-based DevShare submission could also be a great candidate for the Marketplace.

Notice: We have discontinued the monthly contest for now and will likely bring it back in the future in some other form.

See the Contributor of the Month Contest Rules and the list of previous winners for more information about the contest.

As 2013 draws near, we at BIRT Exchange would like express our thanks and gratitude to all our members and the entire BIRT community for a wonderful year.

2013 is promising to be a good year for BIRT and BIRT Exchange as we explore new ways to visualize big data, develop more awesome plug-ins to BIRT and make some long overdue improvements to the site. Let us know what you'd like to see so we can ensure BIRT Exchange more fully meets the needs of the BIRT community.

All our best to you this holiday season!

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I'm pleased to announce the members of the BIRT Exchange Community Leaderboard for November 2012. The purpose of this Leaderboard is to honor the top contributors to BIRT Exchange each month and to have a little fun. Scores are also posted on the BIRT Exchange Connect page. You can recognize past and current Leaderboard members by special badges on their forum and DevShare posts:


To determine the leaders, each contribution made by a BIRT Exchange member is assigned a weighted point score that roughly corresponds to its effort/value. For example, starting a forum topic by asking a question will score you 1 point and answering someone's question scores 3 points. Members with the top summed scores each month are declared the leaders for that month and posted to the Leaderboard. Over time we will evolve the scoring system as needed for fairness and value to the community. We also added a point for voting on the BIRT Exchange Community home page polls.

So please contribute to BIRT Exchange. It's not difficult to get a decent score and we'd love to see you on the Leaderboard next month!

You can find details on the Community Leaderboard Wiki. If you have any suggestions or comments, please add them to this blog post (they're worth 2 points).

The winner of the BIRT Exchange Contributor of the Month Contest for October 2012 is Sérgio Gomes (smgomes) for his contribution to BIRT Exchange titled: PDF rendering different fonts.

Sérgio said, "My contribution is related to the problems of fonts in different operating systems. Even though they are installed on the system and the report is configured to be drawn with the right font (i.e., Verdana), in the visualization process it appears unconfigured and with the Times New Roman font."

Sérgio is 28, and lives in Portugal where he is currently working as a software developer at DeltaFIL, Informática e Sistemas Digitais where he develops management software called Projecto Colibri, using Java - Rich Client Platform. Sérgio has used BIRT since 2007 to integrate the reports in his application. He remarks, "I continue to use this great tool to provide more efficient and effective reports."

Sérgio chose a $200 Amazon Gift Card for his award.

It's not too late... to get your own DevShare article posted in time for next month's contest that closes on November 30th. If you"ve cooked up something that you can share with the BIRT Exchange community, please post it soon! You can create a tutorial, build a BIRT application, template or component, or write up some of the tips and solutions to problems you've run into during the past -- anything that's helped you use BIRT more effectively will probably be useful to others too. And don't forget the BIRT Exchange Marketplace. A code-based DevShare submission could also be a great candidate for the Marketplace.

See the Contributor of the Month Contest Rules and the list of previous winners for more information about the contest.