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Fáilte Orchestra Contest Winner: Daniel McOrmond’s Irish Orchestra.io Tweets »

Created at: 21.09.2011 00:45, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community Contests events contest funconf php

It's with pleasure that I announce Daniel McOrmond as the winner of our Fáilte Orchestra competition.

Daniel's "Irish Orchestra Tweets" entry is a dead simple app that takes the tweet-stream from the @orchestra_io Twitter account, displays them against a cringe-worthy 'oirish backdrop, and translates them to what appears to be an American's interpretation of what an Irish accent sounds like.

I mentioned last week that we wanted the "smartest, wittiest or most-charming" app, and Daniel's entry was most fitting. We really felt that it was in the spirit of the competition: combining some nice cheesy Irish humour with a nice little application of technology. Nice work, Daniel! We'll see you in Ireland for Funconf!

Win a Trip to Ireland on Engine Yard »

Created at: 08.09.2011 23:51, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community Contests events contest funconf php

As you have heard, Engine Yard recently joined forces with Orchestra. Not only was this big news for the PHP community in general, it was huge for the Irish tech community.

What you may not know is that last year, Eamon Leonard, co-founder of Orchestra co-organised Funconf with me. Engine Yard were huge supporters of Funconf last year, and their support is even more significant this year.

I'm delighted to announce "Fáilte Orchestra" : your chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Ireland.

The prize includes:

• Return Flight to Ireland (up to $1500, depending on where you are)
• A Ticket to Funconf (includes 2 nights accommodation and all food and drink, and an amazing lineup)

To be in with a chance to win, in true Irish style, we're looking for the "smartest, wittiest or most-charming" app deployed on http://orchestra.io. Here are the rules:

• The app must be your original work but feel free to make use of frameworks and libraries (e.g. CakePHP, PEAR)
• It must be open source
• It must (obviously) be deployed on Orchestra

That's it! We want you to be creative, smart, witty, interesting. What will win this will be the app, or page, or project that makes us laugh the loudest, or drop our jaw in awe, or is just plain awesome.

To enter, send a tweet (CC: @engineyard) with the hashtag #failteorchestra with a link to your deployed Orchestra app, and a link to the Github repo.

Please get your entries in before midnight on the 15th of September. The winner will be chosen and announced here on the 16th.

You have 7 days. Let the games begin, and good luck!