Southwest Fox Conference Blog

A change of speakers … and next deadline approaches

We’re disappointed to share that Cathy Pountney won’t be speaking at Southwest Fox this year after all. (She’s fine, but needed to step out.) But we’re delighted that Tuvia Vinitsky has agreed to help fill the schedule. He’ll be covering two topics that should be of interest to both Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ attendees: dbSchema: SQL Server Database Design and Maintenance Made Easy PCI Compliance: Facts and Fears Also, just a quick reminder that Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

The conferences are a go!

Rick, Doug and I met (via Skype) and made the decision to move forward with this year’s conferences. Registrations to date are almost identical to last year’s on the same date, giving us confidence that the conferences remain financially feasible. We’re also happy to tell you that we’ve added Rick Borup to the speaker list. He’ll follow up three previous sessions on using Mercurial with Version Control Faceoff: Git vs Mercurial, plus present I See Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Less than a week to Super-saver deadline!

Hear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick… That’s the countdown clock here at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the Super-saver deadline for Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++! June 30th is a little less than a week away and we thought we would pass along a reminder just in case you forgot to type it into your task list, or put a yellow sticky note on your monitor. We still need people to register to make Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

We’re on the FoxShow

We were interviewed by Andrew Ross MacNeill for his The FoxShow podcast. Click here to go right to this episode And don’t forget to register for the conference by July 1 to get the Super-Saver discount of $125 plus one free pre-conference session!

By Tamar Granor, ago

How many speakers will we have at Southwest Fox 2015? It’s up to you.

We recently did one of the hardest tasks associated with running Southwest Fox–choosing speakers and topics from among the ones submitted. This year, it was harder than it has been in a long while. (We’ll post the results as soon as it’s all worked out.) Based on last year’s attendance, we’ve decided to plan for two simultaneous VFP sessions rather than three, as we’ve had for several years. Doing so reduces our financial risk and Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

2015 Call for Speakers

We’re inviting anyone interesting in speaking at this year’s conferences to submit topics. You’ll find the Call for Speakers at http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx. Please read the complete Call for Speakers document (linked from that page), and use our proposal submission application at https://geekgatherings.com/Submission. Session proposals are due by March 9.

By Tamar Granor, ago

What do you think? Conference evaluations tell us.

All three of us who run Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ are experienced conference speakers and we know how big a role feedback plays in getting better at presenting. So, it’s no surprise that when we first started running a conference, we spent a lot of time and energy discussing what we wanted on both session evaluations and the overall conference evaluation. We’ve tweaked those contents (especially at the conference level) over the years, trying Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago