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9 November, in Prague, in the series of Firebird events, there was a Firebird seminar. It was organized by IBPhoenix, IBSurgeon and FastReport with the great help of Pavel Cisar, IBPhoenix representative in Czech Republic. Sessions by main Firebird developer Dmitry Emanov, Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon) and Mike Philippenko (FastReport), described Firebird roadmap, internals, security, optimization, database repair, and more.
There was about ~50 attendees, from different cities and companies. We had enjoyed interesting questions. It's nice to see that Firebird in Czech Republic and France (where seminar was at 30 October, in Paris) has strong and growing position and used by many professionals.
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The next in the Firebird Events will be 2nd Firebird and InterBase Russian Conference, 23 november, and Firebird seminar in Warsaw, Poland, 7 december.