Southwest Fox Conference Blog

Session proposals due Monday

Session proposals for Southwest Fox 2009 are due by Monday, March 16. We’ve already received quite a few, including a number from people who haven’t spoken at Southwest Fox before, but we’re happy to get more. So if you have something to share with the VFP community, please visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the Call for Sand download the proposal submission application. We can’t wait to hear from you. We hope this year is the hardest one Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2009 Call for Speakers

Today we released the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2009. Anyone interested in presenting should visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the Call for Speakers, and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 16. We’re hoping to add a track this year called Technology for the VFP Developer. It’ll cover things other than VFP that make life easier for FoxPro developers, like source control and virtual machines. Of course, we still plan to Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Follow Southwest Fox News on Twitter

Are you hanging out on Twitter with the rest of your FoxPro friends? No? No problem, you can still follow along at http://twitter.com/swfox to get up to date news on the best Visual FoxPro conference in North America. Like to follow this blog to get the latest news, no problem again. You can count on this blog for all the news that is about Southwest Fox. Even more details will be posted on the conference Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund

Back in October we announced the formation of the Southwest Fox Ambassador Fund. On January 3rd our dear friend Ceil Silver passed away after an extended battle with Melanoma. You can read some terrific writing by Ceil as she chronicled her battle with cancer on her blog “Too Much Me.” You can also read a wonderful message from her daughters after her passing too. Today I am officially announcing a name change with her daughters’ Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Tweets at Southwest Fox

Twitter is one of many social networking tools where friends/followers read posts about what someone is working on, something happened in their life they want to share, debate world events, get advice personal and professionally, and generally interact or converse with each other. Twitter is known as micro-blogging and each post is limited to 140 characters. Each post is known as a tweet. One of the uses of Twitter that has bubbled up in the Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Ambassador Fund – Update

The Ambassador Fund for Southwest Fox is progressing on a couple of fronts. The first part is the donations are continuing to arrive. We currently have US$2371 in the bank and another US$625 pledged. This is an amazing number and shows the generosity of the community. Last week we also invited a few people in the Fox Community to serve on a committee that will define the process for selecting the Ambassador(s) brought to the Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Where in the world?!?

Or should I say: Where on the Virtual Earth… I wanted to have some coding fun this past weekend after working really hard on a problem in an app I am enhancing in FoxPro for DOS. I needed some serious time inside of VFP and at the same time I wanted to learn something new. Then I find Craig Boyd’s Thanksgiving Day (USA holiday) gift to the Fox Community: Virtual Earth Class Library for VFP. Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

It’s about time!

One of the most frequent comments we saw on the evaluations for individual sessions was “ran out of time” or “not enough time” or something else along those lines. A few people even suggested that we lengthen the time slots in the schedule to give speakers more time, while another suggested we tell speakers they have 60 minutes, but give them 75 as we do now. (We kind of think they’d notice that when the Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Conference Hotel Room Feedback

In general we get a lot of positive comments on the hotel rooms for the conference, but this year there were a few people who suggested we look into a new location because there were problems with their rooms. Your feedback is real important to us. Last year (based on positive attendee feedback and our experience) we locked into the Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center for 2008 and 2009. After next year’s conference we Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

The Economics of Conference Food

We’ve been reviewing the evaluations from Southwest Fox 2008. We’ll use this blog to respond to some of the suggestions and comments we received and even to ask the community for more information or clarification. Today, I want to address food, more specifically food and money. We get a lot of comments about the food at Southwest Fox. Many are positive, which we appreciate since we really try hard to offer a good selection of Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago