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Unfortunately, for reasons outside of his control, César Chalom is
unable to attend Southwest Fox 2009. In his stead, we are pleased to
announce that Emerson Santon Reed has been selected as the 2009 Ceil
Silver Ambassador. He will attend Southwest Fox 2009 and represent the
Brazilian VFP community.
 Emerson, a software developer from Americana - SP, Brazil, has worked
with Visual FoxPro since 1999, and is an active member of the Brazilian
VFP community. He presented a session at the Brazilian VFP conference in
2008. He is well known to the global VFP community for his
ThemedControls project at VFPX. (VFPX,
http://vfpx.codeplex.com, is the primary VFP community development
site.) He also has a blog (http://weblogs.foxite.com/emersonreed)
where you can find useful material on Visual FoxPro. We are very excited
that Emerson can attend Southwest Fox 2009 and know that many attendees
are looking forward to meeting him in person.
Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund
Many VFP developers around the world provide incredible contributions
to the VFP community, such as working on
VFPX projects,
blogging about techniques and code to do cool things in VFP, or
providing exemplary support in various VFP forums. However, for most of
them, attending a conference such as Southwest Fox isn't feasible.
The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund is intended to raise money from the VFP
community to bring a developer to the Southwest Fox conference as an
ambassador for the developers in his or her country. This gives the
recipient the opportunity to meet and share experiences with developers
attending Southwest Fox and gives other attendees the opportunity to learn
about VFP development in the recipient's country.
The Fund is named in memory of Ceil Silver, a long-time member of the
Visual FoxPro community, who passed away in January, 2009. Ceil served
as Editor of FoxPro Advisor's Tips and Tricks column for many years and
was the founder of the Westchester County FoxPro chapter of PADD, the
Professional Association of Database Developers. She was also a
contributing author to Special Edition Using Visual FoxPro 6.
Ceil understood the value of attending professional conferences, and
continued to attend them until her failing health prevented it.
We urge you to consider donating any amount you see fit, small or
large, to this fund. Contributions can be sent, by check to:
Geek Gatherings, LLC
Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund
42759 Flis Drive
Sterling Heights, MI 48314
We can also accept donations via PayPal.
100% of donated money will go to the travel costs for the ambassador. Not
a single penny will be used to cover administrative costs. All time managing
the fund and working through the selection process will be donated. No one
will be paid for their time. So if you want to donate to the fund, please
send a check or we can arrange non-credit card PayPal transaction so we
don't have unnecessary discount fees.
Also, let us know if you want your contribution to be public or not. If
so, we will include your name in the list of contributors announced at this
year's conference.
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