DevShare Contributor of the Month Contest

Contest Overview

NOTICE: This contest is closed and no longer available for entry after November 30, 2012. We expect to reinstate the contest in either its current form or using a new process in the future. Actuate wants to thank all who have participated in the contest as well as everyone in the BIRT community who contributes to DevShare.

What is the DevShare Contributor of the Month Contest?

The DevShare Contributor of the Month contest was created as one way to reward BIRT Exchange members who actively contribute to the community. There are many within the BIRT and Actuate developer communities who have become experts with the technology during their course of implementing an application. The lessons learned while developing these applications are valuable to other developers attempting to do the same thing. For this reason, we created an area on BIRT Exchange called the DevShare where developers can share these lessons learned in the form of quick tips, example code, report designs, technical blog posts, online articles, tutorials, or anything else you found helpful while developing your application. At the end of each month, the person with the most popular DevShare item submitted that month will win a prize.

What are the goals of this contest?

The purpose of the DevShare Contributor of the Month contest is to promote the sharing of developer resources related to BIRT on the BIRT Exchange developer community site. This contest should increase the number of submissions of BIRT related designs or code examples, tips, tutorials, and articles in the DevShare area of BIRT Exchange.

What are the eligibility requirements for the contest?

In general, the contest is open to members of the BIRT Exchange community except for those employed by Actuate Corporation. Membership to BIRT Exchange is free and you can sign up here.

What are the prizes?

Once a month, the BIRT Exchange member with the most popular DevShare item will be selected as the DevShare Contributor of the Month and win his or her choice of prizes below:

$200 Gift Card from Amazon, Apple, or other appropriate vendor

Contest Details

What content can be submitted?

The DevShare area on BIRT Exchange is the central location to share and discover useful examples submitted by the BIRT community. Examples you submit can be in the form of report designs, code examples, plug-ins, helpful tips, tutorials, videos, or anything else you found helpful in the course of integrating BIRT and related technologies into your applications. The content you submit should be your original content and should conform to the Guidelines for Posting DevShare Content

How do I include my DevShare submission in the contest?

All DevShare items submitted each month will be automatically entered into the contest. The DevShare Submission Form is located here

How is the DevShare Contributor of the Month determined?

The DevShare Contributor of the Month prize will be awarded to the BIRT Exchange member who has submitted the best popular DevShare item each month. Popularity is determined by the number of times a DevShare item has been viewed, downloaded, commented and reviewed, with all measurements weighted by the length of time each submitted item has been posted to the site. A panel of Actuate judges will make the final determination of a winner based on popularity. In addition, the panel reserves the right to eliminate any submitted item from consideration if, in the exclusive opinion of the judges, that item is deemed to be unfairly popularized. Winning submissions will be announced within two weeks of the close of each month's contest.

How will I be notified if I am selected as the winner?

The BIRT Exchange member who has been selected as the winner will be contacted using the e-mail address from his or her BIRT Exchange profile. The winning entry will be announced in a blog post and displayed on the home page of the Community area within BIRT-Exchange.org. Winners are required to reply to the e-mail indicating their choice of prizes and supply a postal address where the prize can be mailed. Winners must also agree that Actuate can use their name, DevShare submission and any other information supplied specifically for the contest (city address and phone number will not be shared) for future contest promotion.

Who were the previous winners?

Month	Winning DevShare Entry	Contributor	Announcement	Results
November 2012	Twitter JSON Search ODA	Tapash Kumar Sahu	01/08/13	---
October 2012	PDF rendering different fonts	Sérgio Gomes	11/27/12	---
September 2012	Tutorial: Writing BIRT Emitters: XML and JPEG Emitter	John Ward	11/06/12	---
August 2012	Dates in BIRT datasets	Hans van Dorst	09/06/12	---
July 2012	Implement Maximo 7.5.0.3 BIRT fix in 7.1.1.x	Jason Verly	09/06/12	---
June 2012	Removing Blank Line in Multi-select Cascading Parameter	George Hardigg	09/06/12	---
May 2012	How to embed a .js file into Maximo BIRT report	Jason Verly	06/29/12	---
April 2012	Mongo DB ODA Plugin for BIRT	Ankit Garg	06/08/12	---
March 2012	Multi Column Reports	David Good	04/26/12	---
February 2012	Showing Top 10 and Still Displaying Total Count	John Ward	03/16/12	---
January 2012	No eligible entry this month	---	---	---
December 2011	BIRT drop group header property and table border lines	Hans Van Dorst	01/23/12	---
November 2011	ISALLNULL Aggregate Function extension	Megha Nidhi Dahal	12/09/11	---
October 2011	Facebook ODA Driver	Debolina Ray	12/02/11	---
September 2011	CSV Emitter Plugin for BIRT	Maneesh Sethi	10/18/11	poll
August 2011	Use java event handler to code across the output of a SQL dataSet using a Scripted DataSet	Anthony Chavez	09/19/11	poll
July 2011	XLS scripted data source in BIRT through Apache POI Java API	Suren R	08/17/11	poll
June 2011	BIRT report conditional watermark and NullPointerException	Megha Nidhi Dahal	07/15/11	poll
May 2011	Pareto Chart	Shashank Kumar	06/14/11	---
April 2011	Bending Birt to Editing Tasks	Bruce McDonald	05/19/11	poll
March 2011	Embed a BIRT report in a JSP to allow dynamic change of parameters at runtime all on a single screen	Paul Bappoo	04/30/11	poll
February 2011	Oracle Stored Procedure Data Set in BIRT	Hans Van Dorst	03/15/11	poll
January 2011	Re-using parameters in BIRT Data set	Tom Bauwens	02/14/11	poll
December 2010	Formatting in BIRT cross tab	Debolina Ray	01/27/11	poll
November 2010	Ways to specify Dynamic Query	Megha Nidhi Dahal	12/16/10	poll
October 2010	No eligible entry this month	---	---	---
September 2010	BIRT vs Jasper vs Pentaho	Scott Rosenbaum	10/20/10	---
August 2010	All About Crosstabs	John Ward	09/07/10	---
July 2010	Birt Report Thumbnails	Rene Mertins	08/18/10	poll
June 2010	Hiding specific columns in report based upon the input	Megha Nidhi Dahal	07/23/10	poll
May 2010	No eligible entry this month	---	---	---
April 2010	BIRT Stored Procedure Data Sets and Label Printing	Paul Bappoo	05/10/10	---
March 2010	Using a Popup Debug Window in BIRT	David Mehi	04/20/10	poll
February 2010	DashBIRT 1.0	Cedric Picard	03/23/10	poll
January 2010	BIRT best practice	Evgeny Sitnikov	02/12/10	---
2009 Annual	Browse a Database with BIRT	Huw Bradfield	01/31/10	---
December 2009	Working with Extension Points: Aggregations	John Ward	01/22/10	poll
November 2009	No eligible entry this month	---	---	---
October 2009	BIRT - A Newbie's Perspective	Paul Bappoo	11/17/09	poll
September 2009	Increase security on BIRT reports	Mikey Dekker	10/09/09	---
August 2009	Extracting a Report Design from a Report Document	John Ward	9/22/09	poll
July 2009	Report with table and chart from multiple data sources based on sub-queries	Dariusz Filipski	8/19/09	poll
June 2009	BIRT Webservice Driver with HTTPS support	Phillip Mayhew	7/17/09	---

How will I receive my prize?

Your prize will be sent by either e-mail or postal mail to the address you supply when you are notified as the winner.

Is there a limit to the number of DevShare items I can submit?

No. You can submit as many DevShare items as you like and all your items submitted will be eligible for the contest. To allow for multiple winners, each BIRT Exchange member can win the monthly prize only 2 times per 12 month period.

Timeline

When can I start participating in the contest?

The contest begins at 12:00 AM Pacific time on June 1st, 2009 and continues each month until otherwise noted. This contest may be discontinued at any time.

What is the contest timeline?

The contest frequency runs from the first day of each month 12:00 AM Pacific time until the last day of the same month at 11:59 PM Pacific time. The top 5 contributors of each month will be chosen usually by the 7th day of the next month. For example, the June contest runs from June 1st, 12:00 AM PST until June 30th, 11:59 PM PST and the top 5 nominees for June will be selected and notified on July 7th. Voting for the best nomination will be held using a forum-based open community poll at that time and voting will last for approximately 1 week. So typically, the winner of the poll will be notified around the 14th of that next month.