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Let the Games Begin: FME Community Bingo Starts Today!

  • August 11, 2025
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danielleatsafe
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We’re celebrating summer with a fun surprise - FME Community Bingo kicks off today!

Starting Monday, August 11, 2025, we’re inviting all FME users to join in on a fun and interactive way to connect with fellow members of the FME Community.

Whether you’re answering a question, uploading an image, or participating in a team challenge, each completed task earns you a square on the Bingo board - and every square is a chance to win exciting prizes! 

Here’s how it works:

  • Complete tasks across the FME Community (click a square to reveal the task)
  • Earn squares on your Bingo board (red = incomplete, green = complete, blue = community task)
  • Each square equals 1 entry into our end-of-event prize draw
  • Bonus entries for completing rows or forming the X pattern

The more squares you complete, the more chances you have to win! Winners will be chosen by random draw.

Play to win: 

  • First place: $250 Everything Gift Card
  • Second place: $100 gift card
  • Third place: $100 gift card
  • Plus four virtual badge awards

Login to your FME Community account and join the Bingo fun here! The contest runs until August 31, 2025.

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danilo_fme
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  • August 11, 2025

Let’s play it! :)


jdh
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  • August 11, 2025

Tried to play the Smarter Than Chat GPT square, and the pictures were taking 10-15 seconds each to load.  With a 4 minute timer, that was a lot of wasted time.
Also suggest that Submit automatically goes to next, instead of having to press one button after the other.

Even on a second run through and knowing half the answers, I timed out before reaching the 10th question.


mark2atsafe
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  • August 11, 2025

Hi ​@jdh - sorry about that. I just resized all the images so it should take a lot less time to load. My bad for not resampling everything first.

Yes, submit going straight to the next question is a good idea. I’ll see if I can do it.

I reset your quiz score, so if you take it again now, it will count towards the bingo square. Maybe refresh the page before trying again, so the new images are more likely to load.

Regards

Mark


mark2atsafe
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  • August 11, 2025

I removed the Next button too and just left the submit button to submit and go to the next question


virtualcitymatt
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I removed the Next button too and just left the submit button to submit and go to the next question

I have to say I had the same issue as well. Images took too long for me to load yesterday. But they were great. So hard haha


jdh
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  • August 12, 2025

I retook the quiz, it was much smoother this time.  I deliberately tanked the questions I got wrong the first time to make the score more realistic.  At least 2 of them I would never have gotten in a million years.


jdh
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  • August 18, 2025

Anybody else having an issue uploading an image to square 6?  I get “Error uploading image” when pressing the Upload image button.


mark2atsafe
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  • August 18, 2025

Anybody else having an issue uploading an image to square 6?  I get “Error uploading image” when pressing the Upload image button.

I don’t get that, no. I tried with both jpg and png and it was fine. But I just noticed these errors which might be your file:

2025-8-18 12:50:36 | JPEG reader: `/data/fmeflow/resources/system/temp/requestdata/15406986871401123809/quizZero.jpg' not recognized as being in a supported file format.
2025-8-18 12:50:36 | JPEG reader: Failed to open the dataset '/data/fmeflow/resources/system/temp/requestdata/15406986871401123809/quizZero.jpg'. Please ensure source data is valid and correct reader is selected

 

Can you try a different jpg file? Or check that this is OK by reading it with FME DI/Workbench? There’s something about it that FME doesn’t like.


jdh
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  • August 18, 2025

My image was called T1.jpg   I converted it to png and it uploaded without issue.  I’m including the original jpg here if you want to see why FME doesn’t like it.  None of the other software had any issues.

 


 


mark2atsafe
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  • August 18, 2025

AnchoredSnapper! Very good. Anyway, I’ll download the file and see if I can figure out why FME doesn’t like it.


mark2atsafe
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  • August 18, 2025

@jdh - that’s interesting. The file appears to be webp format. But even though it’s webp with a png extension, browsers, Slack, etc will still read it. I’ve put a query in with our developers to see if we should switch to a webp reader automagically when a png reader fails.

In the meantime, can you convert it from webp to a true png and try again? I can recommend some format conversion software if it would help!


jdh
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  • August 18, 2025

I just opened the jpg in Windows Photos and saved as png.   Wasn’t planning on spending more than a coffee break on this.


mark2atsafe
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  • August 18, 2025

@jdh Yes, this appears to be a known problem with ChatGPT. It tells you that it has created a png image (complete with .png file extension) but in fact it is a webp format image.

A web browser will happily look through the header to find out the real format of the data. FME won’t.

Currently, I can’t think how to update my FME workspace to try the webp reader if the png reader fails. So I think the only solution is to convert them manually using the FME webp reader/png writer before trying to upload them to the contest.

 


jdh
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  • August 18, 2025

@mark2atsafe  It was Microsoft Copilot, but presumably the same issue.


arcvancouver
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  • August 20, 2025

Hey FYI all, we got 16/50 people on the Task 10: Are You Smarter than ChatGPT?… let’s gooooooo!😂

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Almost there for the Community Spotlight Challenge - 9/10! One more!!!

 


matthieuv
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  • August 26, 2025

It is now 16/25. Seems to be difficult getting it in the first try.


jdh
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  • August 27, 2025

Alas the remaining two squares I have control over require posting on social media platforms I’m not a part of.


arcvancouver
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  • August 27, 2025

Almost there… that “ChatGPT” square is going to allude us all! 

Carlos’s Bingo Square, before he gets that August Calendar badge today…. wooooooooo! 

 


mark2atsafe
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  • August 27, 2025

Yes, get your August calendar badge now! I think it’s UTC time that counts, so about 6.5 hours left to earn it.


mark2atsafe
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  • August 27, 2025

Alas the remaining two squares I have control over require posting on social media platforms I’m not a part of.

I apologise for that, but, well, you know how it is. But I think we’d be ok with any social platform, not just those two. Even if you just posted something to this thread or somewhere else on the community.


arcvancouver
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  • August 27, 2025

Hey FYI all, we got 16/50 people on the Task 10: Are You Smarter than ChatGPT?… let’s gooooooo!😂

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Almost there for the Community Spotlight Challenge - 9/10! One more!!!

 

20/25 now….

 

Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a Bingo card game before #collectthemall...


danielleatsafe
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I love the investment ​@arcvancouver!


matthieuv
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  • August 27, 2025

Going for that gold badge!


carolina_w
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  • August 28, 2025

Hey FYI all, we got 16/50 people on the Task 10: Are You Smarter than ChatGPT?… let’s gooooooo!😂

| Community

Almost there for the Community Spotlight Challenge - 9/10! One more!!!

 

20/25 now….

 

Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a Bingo card game before #collectthemall...

Same here! On on pins and needles now! Been harassing every FME user I know to do the quiz. 😅


arcvancouver
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  • August 28, 2025
3 MORE TO GO!!!!

Put the call out on LinkedIn, maybe that will prod a few more enthusiasts by end of the month.