Southwest Fox Conference Blog

There are two different kinds of scholarships available to offset the costs of Southwest Fox. White Light Computing (Rick’s company) offers two $150 scholarships to early registrants. Tomorrow’s Solutions, LLC (my company) offers one $150 scholarship to early registrants who have never previously attended Southwest Fox. The White Light Computing Scholarship winners for this year are two long-time Southwest Fox attendees: Joel Leach from Memorial Business Systems and Stacey Violett of Black Mountain Software. The Read more…

Anyone who is registered for Southwest Fox 2011 before midnight EDT on September 1st (including those who are already registered) is eligible for one of three drawings for a DBi Technologies Studio Controls for COM license (which sells for $749). Thanks to DBi for their ongoing support of Southwest Fox! In addition, we’re trying to get a better handle both on how many people to expect and the factors in people’s decision to attend or Read more…

We tried something new for pricing Southwest Fox this year. Instead of using calendar deadlines, we divided the number of attendees we expect into a set of “buckets,” with an increased price for each bucket. We even put the number of seats left in each bucket on the conference home page. The reason for the change was to get people to register sooner, which helps us in many different areas of planning. We put 20 Read more…

Just a quick reminder that the July 1 deadline for getting a free pre-conference session with your registration is just around the corner. After that, each precon you attend is $99, as is a second precon when you get the first one free. We have a great line-up of half-day pre-conference sessions this year. The choices are: ASP.NET MVC3 JumpStart by Steve Bodnar Boosting Your Client Server Application using Stored Procedures by Menachem Bazian Fly Read more…

This is just a quick reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2011 are due by next Monday, March 28. For details, read the Call for Speakers document linked at http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx. NOTE: If you have sent in your proposals and have not received an acknowledgment, it means we did not receive them. Please send an email to speakers@swfox.net (without attachments), so we can work it out.

The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund brings a developer to the Southwest Fox conference in the United States 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. For more information on the Ambassador Fund or to learn how to contribute to it, please Read more…