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Marcia and I will be among the Southwest Fox Speakers this year

Bob Kocher has announced the first batch of speakers and topics for the “Southwest Fox” developer conference that will be held at Arizona State University,  Tempe, Arizona, between October 13-16, 2005. Early-bird (discounted) registrations are being accepted at www.swfox.net. Hotel information has been posted and information about Pre-Con session details will be available soon.

I am very proud that Marcia and I have been chosen as part of the first 8 speakers to be announced along with (in alphabetical order only) Cathy Pountney, Drew Speedie, Doug Hennig, Rick Borup, Rick Schummer, Rick Strahl. We will each be giving at least two sessions and all details can be found on the Southwest Fox web site. This is a real high-powered line-up of FoxPro speakers!

For those of you who are interested in finding a conference, in the USA, this year at which the primary focus will still be on Visual FoxPro, this is the one! Most importantly this conference is held at a University (not an expensive resort hotel) and runs from midday Thursday to midday Sunday to help keep the number of ‘working days lost’ to a minimum.

This does not mean that things are done “on the cheap”! Those of us who were there last year know that this conference has at least the same quality as any other conference but, by using the University instead of major hotels, the cost can be kept very reasonable indeed.

We hope to see you there!

Published Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:16 PM by andykr

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# re: Marcia and I will be among the Southwest Fox Speakers this year

Monday, April 11, 2005 1:26 PM by Dave Birley
I went to and enjoyed GLGDW once, and loved the style and format, then, after its demise, when Andy told me that DevCon was becoming overpriced, Net-focused, and highly diluted for VFP content, and that he recommended Southwest Fox, I went last year. WHAT A BARGAIN!!!!!!! There were sessions every hour that had something to offer that were helpful to me, and wonderful well qualified and capable session leaders of world class quality throughout.

Don't miss this one, folks, if for no other reason than that you will make one-on-on contact with the best of the best in the VFP community and be in a legitimate place to be able to contact them later on a "Remember me? -- Oh, and by the way, exactly what did you mean when you said..." basis.

Wikis are fine, converences like Southwest Fox are waaaaay better.

# re: Marcia and I will be among the Southwest Fox Speakers this year

Monday, April 11, 2005 4:50 PM by Andy Kramek
I couldn't agree more! Of course the sessions are important but the main value of any conference is the ability to get to know your fellow developers (whether they are speakers or delegate), see what they are doing and discuss thiungs of interest.

Even if I were not speaking at this conference I would have been going as a delegat (see Bob, you lost a fee by inviting me <g>) and I am sure of three things:

[1] I will meet people whom I have never met before but who are tackling the same problems day to day that I do and I will get at least one new way of tackling a specific problem from another delegate

[2] I will learn at least one thing that I didn't already know about VFP

[3] Just by attending the sessions, even though I won't remember all the details, I will retain the "Oh yes! Fred spoke about that at SW Fox" And since all sessions have white papers and downladable samples I will be able to quickly and easily dig out the information I need.

What do you think?

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