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Southwest Fox 2010 News Update

Southwest Fox 2010 SuperSaver deadline approaches Your opportunity to save big on registration for Southwest Fox ends soon. Super-saver registration offers $125 off the price of the conference, and gives you one free half-day pre-conference session, for total savings of $224. In addition, you’ll be eligible for drawings of three $150 scholarships, a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN ( a $11,899 value), a license of Stonefield Query SDK (a $6,000 value), and Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

New Southwest Fox scholarship

Since we started running Southwest Fox, White Light Computing, Rick Schummer’s company, has offered one or more scholarships, to reduce costs for a few Southwest Fox attendees. This year, my company, Tomorrow’s Solutions, is offering a new scholarship. I have a theory that going to the first conference is the hardest, so this scholarship is open only to those who haven’t attended Southwest Fox in the years that Rick, Doug and I have run it Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

User Group Discount is back

As we’ve done in the past, we’re giving user groups a chance to benefit from Southwest Fox and hoping that, in return, they’ll encourage their members to attend. The deal is the same as in the past. Your group must register with us by July 1. Then, after the conference, you send us a list of your members who were paid attendees, and we’ll send you $25 for each one. Your group can use that Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2010: Speakers and Sessions

The organizers know the biggest draw to get you to come to Southwest Fox is the sessions and the speakers who share their vast knowledge with you during your stay in Mesa. We have an extraordinary line up with some of the best minds in the Visual FoxPro Community lined up to cover some topical and interesting material. Our speakers include a mix of people who have presented at one of the six Southwest Fox Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Hello world, again!

Our blog entries have been processed through Blogger and FTP’ed to the Southwest Fox Web server since we started the blog back in November of 2007. Blogger announced they no longer are supporting the FTP posters so we moved our blog to a new engine. Today this was accomplished! We are now using WordPress as the blogging engine and the initial impressions are positive. So please be patient as we go clean up the links Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Southwest Fox 2010 Call for Speakers

Out the window of my office, I see snow adding a new layer over the remains of the back-to-back blizzards that hit the Middle Atlantic states earlier this month, but at Geek Gatherings, we’re already focused on next fall. Today, we’re posting the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2010, along with the updated proposal submission application. Last year, we set a new record for the number of speaker and session proposals we received . Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2009 on the Web

This year more than ever, people who came to Southwest Fox posted thoughts about the conference and the sessions they attended. If you know of others please send them to info@swfox.net. This page might be updated in the future.Bloggers who are talking about Southwest Fox 2009 Chris Franzhttp://blog.advantageevangelist.com/2009/10/ready-for-swfox.htmlhttp://blog.advantageevangelist.com/2009/10/swfox-conference-begins.htmlhttp://blog.advantageevangelist.com/2009/10/swfox-day-one.htmlhttp://blog.advantageevangelist.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-day-two.htmlhttp://blog.advantageevangelist.com/2009/10/swfox-final-day.html Doug Hennighttp://doughennig.blogspot.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-2009-pre-conference.htmlhttp://doughennig.blogspot.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-2009-day-1.htmlhttp://doughennig.blogspot.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-2009-day-2.htmlhttp://doughennig.blogspot.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-2009-day-3.html Mike Feltmanhttp://f1technologies.blogspot.com/2009/10/southwest-fox-2009-rocked.html Joel Leachhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/13/9123.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/15/9134.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/17/9147.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/17/9148.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/20/9173.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/joel_leach/archive/2009/10/21/9178.aspx Eric Seljehttp://saltydogllc.com/?p=137http://saltydogllc.com/?p=134http://saltydogllc.com/?p=131http://saltydogllc.com/?p=121http://saltydogllc.com/?p=118http://saltydogllc.com/?p=115http://saltydogllc.com/?p=112http://saltydogllc.com/?p=106http://saltydogllc.com/?p=102http://saltydogllc.com/?p=99http://saltydogllc.com/?p=97http://saltydogllc.com/?p=93 Mark Lyonhttp://asfarastheeyecantsee.blogspot.com/2009/10/14-flavors-of-awesome.html Emerson Santon Reed (Ceil Silver Ambassador)http://weblogs.foxite.com/emersonreed/archive/2009/11/18/Aknowledgments.aspxhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/emersonreed/archive/2009/11/20/SouthwestFox2009.aspx Rick Schummerhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-preparation-days.htmlhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-pre-conference-day.htmlhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-day-1.htmlhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-day-2.htmlhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-day-3.htmlhttp://rickschummer.com/blog/2009/11/southwest-fox-2009-wrap-up.html Follow the aggregated tweets on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#search?q=swfox Videos from Southwest Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

SWFox TV Schedule

There will be a few Southwest Fox 2009 sessions broadcast on UStream if all goes well with the Internet and the related technologies. Last year we had success so we are very hopeful this year will go well. All the details on the sessions are here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/swfoxtv Note the times on the site are denoted as Pacific Standard Time. Arizona has its own timezone (GMT -07:00), which is the same as Pacific Daylight Time. Current Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Southwest Fox is just around the corner

There are less than 2 weeks to go until the best Visual FoxPro conference in North America kicks off. The pace is picking up here at Geek Gathering’s World Headquarters in Michigan, the two remote offices in Pennsylvania and Saskatchewan, and at the Arizona Golf Resort in Arizona. The conference is about to materialize right before our eyes. The menu is finalized, the schedule is updated (late vendor adds), the conference CD is getting burned, Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

What would make you turn in your eval?

We’re working on lots of details for Southwest Fox right now. One of them is figuring out what to offer attendees to ensure that evaluation forms get turned out. As you can see from some of our previous posts (like The Economics of Conference Food or They like us! They really, really like us!), we really pay attention to the evaluations that our attendees submit. We crunch the numbers they give us and we read Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago