BIRT-ing Out Loud

It’s hard to believe the BIRT Exchange community site is already one year old.  Instead of getting presents for it’s first birthday, the folks behind BIRT Exchange were busy giving presents away.  The most active BIRT Exchange users over the past year were contacted recently and asked to choose a gift. 

There were many active users on BIRT Exchange who helped make this site a success so it was difficult to decide who should get gifts.  For this task, we took into consideration the number of forum posts, examples submitted to DevShare, plus comments made and ratings applied to other submissions.  These active members were asked to choose between an Official BIRT Rocks! T-Qualizer shirt and a set of BIRT Books (BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting and Integrating and Extending BIRT)

Some people have not yet chosen their gift, however it is clear that the majority of these members emailed have chosen the BIRT Rocks shirt.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the first year of BIRT Exchange a success.

For several days last week, the BIRT forums were not allowing new Threads.  If you tried to post a question to the forums and ran into this problem, try again. 

Over the past couple of days, many of you have received your copy of The BIRT Report newsletter.  If you did not get this newsletter, you can see the online version.  To make sure you get the newsletter next month, you can sign up here.

On Wednesday, December 26th, birt-exchange.com will be undergoing some maintenance and will have a few short periods of time where the site is unavailable.  If you are spending your holidays building a reporting project and run into a problem with the site, check back in 5-10 minutes and all should be well.

If you’re reading this post, then you already know that BIRT Exchange is back online. For a few hours each morning for the past two days, the site has gone down for an unknown reason. My guess would be the flood of people jumping right out of bed to download a BIRT report example they dreamed about. Whatever the reason, feel free to email us at info@birt-exchange.com if you run into problems connecting.