'First-ever FileMaker Pro Charting Contest!'
Welcome to the official contest page. Here is where you will find the contest rules, entry form, guidelines and other helpful information. If you don't find what you’re looking for, email Lee.

More than $500 in prizes will be awarded, and the winners and honorable mentions will be announced at the FileMaker Developer Conference taking place August 15–18, 2010 in San Diego, California. Winning charts will be highlighted at John Sindelar’s always-popular ‘The Year in Review’ DevCon session! After the contest the demo files will be consolidated and distributed to the community so that everyone can benefit.

The goals of this contest are to increase market awareness of the data visualization capabilities of FileMaker Pro, and to empower the developer community with exemplary charting techniques and templates. The competition encourages developers to create and share effective charting solutions that are deployed in FileMaker Pro. Any charting technology may be used within FileMaker Pro, including third-party plug-ins or methods that utilize the FileMaker Pro web viewer.

Chart entries will be judged by a panel of four experts who will evaluate them according to an established set of criteria, including:

  • graph clearly conveys a pattern, trend, or exception in the data
  • overall design effectively communicates the chart's intent
  • accurately depicts the data, while being visually appealing
  • clarity of underlying schema design and implementation

Our Panel of Expert Judges

While the contest is not affiliated with FileMaker, Inc., the sponsoring judges of the contest are respected members of the FileMaker developer community, and have a long history of contributing time and talent:

Stuart Gripman, Crooked Arm Consulting

Stuart Gripman is the founder and president of Crooked Arm Consulting. Formerly a senior support specialist at FileMaker Inc., Stuart founded Crooked Arm in 2000 to create high-end custom databases. Stuart also writes for Macworld and Mac|Life magazines and serves as a technical editor for Advisor Basics of FileMaker Pro. This year Stuart co-authored FileMaker Pro 11, The Missing Manual from O’Reilly Press.
Lee Lukehart, SavvyData

SavvyData founder Lee Lukehart is a FileMaker authorized trainer and has earned every developer certification that FileMaker has offered. He authored the popular whitepaper on FileMaker Pro Charting and the TechNet webinar on advanced charting techniques. His students report that his responsive training style makes learning new skills fast and fun. SavvyData Inc. is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John Sindelar, SeedCode

John Sindelar has worked in FileMaker for over 15 years and is the developer behind SeedCode, authors and publishers of elegant FileMaker Pro templates, including SeedCode Calendar. John runs the Seattle FMPug user group, is one of the organizers of Pause on Error, and received the 2004 FileMaker Excellence Award for 'Developing Outstanding Technical Resources for the FileMaker Pro Community.'
Matt Petrowsky, ISO Productions

Entrepreneur, Developer & All-Around-Creative-Guy

The Legal Fine (9pt) Print

This Contest is not sponsored nor endorsed, nor directly affiliated with FileMaker, Inc.

SavvyData Inc. assumes sole responsiblity for the design and management of the Contest; our panel of esteemed judges are not liable for any oversights or malfunctions that may occur.

Neither SavvyData nor any other person or entity associated with this Contest may be held liable for errors or omissions in content or in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned.

Entries will be disqualified if their content is not legally distributable.

All U.S. federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void outside of the U.S. and where prohibited by law.