Just a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest is next Monday, June 1st. You’ll find details on our Call for Speakers page. We look forward to your ideas and session proposals.
Southwest Fox hiatus until 2021 We’re disappointed to announce that due to COVID-19, the annual Southwest Fox Conference is on hiatus in 2020. However, we’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest, an online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP experts to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow programmers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Read more…
We understand you’re probably not thinking much beyond the next few weeks or months, but we’re still planning Southwest Fox 2020 on the assumption that the current crisis will be over by November. In light of that, we’re extending the speaker submission deadline to Monday, April 13. If you have something to share with our developer community, read the Call for Speakers document (http://www.swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.pdf) and then use the Submission site (https://geekgatherings.com/Submission) to send us your Read more…
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2020. If you’re interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page and consider submitting sessions via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site.
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations in order to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here’s the 2019 list, as well as the 2018 and 2017 versions.) Here’s this year’s list, organized and de-duped. Obviously, we welcome topics not on this list, too. X# VFP Advanced wwDotNetBridge C#, including introductory sessions SQL, including migrating from VFP to a SQL backend Multi-tenant architecture and Read more…
The Southwest Fox 2019 Keynote Presentation will stream using Facebook live video starting at 7:00 pm MST (10:00 PM EDT), Thursday, October 24. Kevin Ragsdale is presenting the keynote session titled “The Fox Family: A Whimsical Celebration of FoxPro and the FoxPro Community”.
Andrew MacNeill has posted the third of our FoxShow interviews. In this one, he talks with Tamar about women in tech, how she got here, and of course, Southwest Fox.
Registration for Southwest Fox 2019 has been open for a few weeks and there’s less than a week until the Super-Saver Registration deadline. If you register before the end of June, you save $125 and we’ll throw in a pre-conference session worth $99. Not only that, but you’ll be entered in the drawings for a scholarship that will reduce your cost even more and a license of Stonefield Query SDK, a $2,500 value. Check out Read more…
Andrew Ross MacNeill, the host of the FoxShow, interviewed each of the Southwest Fox organizers separately this year and talked to each of about how we got into computing, why we go to conferences and much more. The first two of the shows are available now. Doug Hennig on FoxShow #84 Rick Schummer on FoxShow #85 We’ll let you know when Tamar’s interview is posted. Thanks, Andrew, as always for helping us spread the word Read more…
Registration for Southwest Fox (http://www.swfox.net/register.aspx) is now available. See http://www.swfox.net/speakers.aspx for a list of speakers and http://www.swfox.net/sessionsswfox.aspx for a list of sessions. Super-Saver Registration, which saves you $125, is available only through June 30th, so don’t wait. Putting on a conference is a risky endeavor. Conference centers require a guaranteed minimum income to block the dates of a conference; for a conference like Southwest Fox, that minimum is in the tens of thousands of dollars. Read more…