Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund
Thanks to the generosity of the VFP community, we have enough money to
bring two developers to Southwest Fox as 2010 Ceil Silver
Ambassadors. Geek Gatherings is pleased to announce that César Chalom and
Bernard Bout have been selected as the ambassadors for Brazil and Australia,
respectively. We are very excited that César and Bernard can attend
Southwest Fox 2010 and know that many attendees are looking forward to
meeting them in person.
César, a software developer from São Paulo, Brazil, has worked with VFP
since 2003, and is an active member of the Brazilian VFP community. He has
attended the Brazilian VFP conference since 2004 and presented sessions at
the conference in 2006 and 2008. He is well known to the global VFP
community for his contributions to several VFPX community projects,
including GDIPlusX and FoxCharts. (VFPX,
http://vfpx.codeplex.com, is the primary VFP community development
site.) His blog (http://weblogs.foxite.com/vfpimaging/default.aspx)
is an excellent source of technical material on GDIPlusX and other VFP
topics.
Bernard
Bout is a VFP developer from Brisbane, Australia. He has been developing
with FoxPro and Visual FoxPro since 1992 and has moved up with every
upgrade. He has been very active on
Foxite since 2001 where
he has produced a number of articles, contributes to the posts, and has
achieved the status of "Preferred Member". He has also been a member of the
Universal Thread
since 2000. Bernard has been active in blogging (http://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout)
all things VFP, especially on the VFPX GDIPlusX project, and has produced a
number of free unique controls as well as a number of articles about VFP and
a number of innovative techniques to enhance the appearance of VFP apps. He
has also been active on the VFPX site, especially with testing GDIPlusX and
the PEM Editor. Bernard has been married for 28 years and has two sons.
About the Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund
The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund brings 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
financed by contributions from the VFP community, and from Geek Gatherings.
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 goes to the travel costs for the ambassador. Not a
single penny is used to cover administrative costs. All time managing the
fund and working through the selection process is donated; no one is paid
for their time.