I would be happy to announce to my friends here in foxite and in Iraq that I am working to accomplish the first Visual FoxPro Programmers Group in Iraq. In fact, I can say it will be the first programmers group in Iraq.
It was my dream to build this group since about more than 4 years ago, and at that time I send an e-mail to one of the Iraqi Foxers who is a member in foxite too (we never met) and told him that I will work on creating a foxpro group in Iraq. He show his readiness to help me on that. But at that time, I was totally engaged in my Medical study to get the certificate of Neurosurgical Profession. Now it is about a year and a half since I finished my study and training and got the certificate to work as a professional neurosurgeon (with very good marks ;-D ..... ). Now I can say that I got some more time to make my dream come true.
I was hesitant to announce this group. I was waiting for it to be more stabilized and active to announce it but several e-mails from
Boudewijn Lutgerink encouraged me to announce about this group early. Thanks to Boudewijn, his idea is that this early announcement is a good wake up call to Iraqi Foxers (or I can say to Iraqi Programmers in general).
So, I e-mailed several Iraqi Foxers who are members in foxite and told them about the group. Till now I got a response from 4 members in different cities in Iraq and they was happy about it. I am waiting for the response of others and trying to hunt more (foxes) in the (forest) :-)
At the time being I got a Google Account for the group in which I build a simple web page, a Discussion Panel, a Blog. Google Account will give us great sharing features with its documents, photos, Calendar, gmail audio and video and text chat and more. I posted these news to my new Iraqi friends to start arranging the work of the group, getting to know each other and build a friendship that will boost our passion to share knowledge and arrange for the first FoxPro Developers Conference ( I hope that be in the near future).
We are just in the first step ... I hope we can make it a solid reality.
We wish to hear from all of you foxer friends, about your experience in
this regard and your advices to us as a newly born foxpro group.
The Iraqi Visual FoxPro Programmers Group,
Google Mail: iraqi.vfppg@gmail.com
Google Profile
Site
Discussion Panel
Blog
Ammar Hadi
June 2009