Registration
Register for Southwest Fox by downloading the
Registration application. Although filling in the form and sending your
registration is very easy, we've created a
video showing you how to
use the application.
A conference brochure is available
for download.
Main Conference Pricing
Note: We're tweaking the "ticket bucket" price mechanism as of
July 25. See
http://swfox.net/blog/2011/07/ticket-bucket-ch-ch-changes/
for details.
This year, we're doing things a little differently. Rather than offering a
discount if you register before a certain date, we're offering a certain number
of registrations at certain price breaks:
Register by July 1 to get one free half-day pre-conference session
(a $99 value)
and eligibility for drawings of three $150 scholarships.
Pre-Conference Pricing
Before July 1: First one free! Second one
is $99
Regular
price (July 1 and later): $99 per session
What's Included
- Entrance to the keynote on Wednesday evening.
- Entrance to all conference sessions on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
- Entrance to any bonus sessions offered in the evening.
- Lunch Thursday and Friday.
- Dinner Thursday night.
- Access to all whitepapers (required for each session)**, examples and slides
(if offered by the speaker). These will be available on our FTP site before the
conference starts so you can read in advance, print out, and bring to the
conference if you like.
- Access to the vendors area where vendors will be selling tools, products,
and services.
- Lots of time to network with other Visual FoxPro developers.
- Conference booklet (PDF format).
- Conference t-shirt (if you register before we order them on October 1)
- Conference bag with materials.
- Lots of networking opportunities with the presenters and other conference
attendees.
**At best you can attend just over half of the sessions. This is
why it is so important that each speaker provides a white paper for their
sessions. You can read the materials for sessions you cannot see in person and even
contact the speaker with questions after the conference, or during the
conference if you wish. Our speakers are some of the best in the world and are
very open to discussing their topics anytime during the conference.
Our session schedule will be available in mid-September. Sessions will run
in three rooms during a given time slot. You have the sometimes difficult job of
picking which session you want during each time slot. We will also have the
KOKOPELLI application available in mid-September which does a pretty good job
of helping you pick sessions you are most interested in and it will suggest a
schedule that best fits your choices.
Optional
Optionally you can attend pre-conference sessions in the morning and
afternoon Wednesday (lunch is included if you sign up for two sessions). These
are $99 each; the first one is free if you register before July 1.
Other Costs to Budget
- Parking at your home airport if you do not take a taxi or get a ride from
someone else.
- Travel to and from Phoenix (typically airfare unless you live within driving
distance).
- Travel from the Phoenix airport to the
conference hotel and return to the airport.
- Hotel room.
- Other meals not noted (depending on registrations we may offer breakfast as
we have in past years).
- Bar bill: people who attend the conference like to extend their day talking
about Visual FoxPro and catching up with friends.
User Group Discount
Geek Gatherings is offering a unique discount to user groups. Please
see the User Groups
page for details.
Southwest Fox Scholarships
Do you want to get some of your conference fee covered by Southwest
Fox platinum sponsors White Light Computing and Tomorrow's Solutions?
See the Scholarship page for details.
Conference Attendance Justification Help Offer
Is your boss giving you a hard time about attending a VFP conference?
Let us know. Rick Schummer is willing to talk to or email each and every
one of them to help you get the okay to head to any FoxPro conference.
He is totally serious. Rick has fought numerous times with former bosses
to get himself to a conference as well as teammates. He has a way of
getting them to see the light!
Tell the World You're Going
Once you've registered, tell the world you're going to Southwest Fox
by including your name in the Who's Coming
list (you decided that at registration time but you can always let us
know later if you want to be on the list) and adding one of the
following images to your Web site or Facebook page:
<a href="http://www.swfox.net" target="_blank"><img
src="http://www.swfox.net/images/SWFox2011Portrait_ImGoing_BLACK.png"
width="95" height="125" border="0" alt="Southwest Fox 2011,
Gilbert,
AZ, October 26 - 29, 2011"/></a>
<a href="http://www.swfox.net" target="_blank"><img
src="http://www.swfox.net/images/SWFox2011Portrait_ImGoing_RED.png"
width="95" height="125" border="0" alt="Southwest Fox 2011,
Gilbert,
AZ, October 26 - 29, 2011"/></a>
Here's what they look like:
A BIG thanks to Dave Aring of daringraphics for creating these
banners.