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We have good news to share today. Thanks to the support of the Visual FoxPro community and our many sponsors, Southwest Fox 2023 will proceed as planned October 19-22, 2023 in Scottsdale, AZ and online via Hopin (now owned by RingCentral).
We really appreciate all the support people have shown for the conference with registrations! That said, the decision comes with a calculated risk because we are still many registrations short of covering all the conference expenses. Please continue to spread the word to your colleagues, clients, user groups and anywhere else Visual FoxPro is spoken.
If you haven’t yet registered, there’s still room for you: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
If you’ve already registered for the in-person conference, you’ll receive a confirmation email soon that includes a link for our discounted hotel rate.
We are pleased to announce Geekwear by Geek Gatherings. Order your Southwest Fox gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Choose from the options shown or create your own unique SWFox-wear.
Only 43 days until we gather in Scottsdale and online via Hopin.
SET URGENT ON
WILL SOUTHWEST FOX 2023 TAKE PLACE? THAT DEPENDS ON YOU.
We have to decide by August 31 whether to hold Southwest Fox 2023 or not. So far, registration for both the in-person and virtual conferences has been slow. We have three options: a hybrid conference as planned, a virtual conference only, or no conference. If you want us to decide to hold the conference, register (for either the in-person or virtual event) before August 30. Credit cards will not be charged until September. If you are registering for the in-person conference, DO NOT book travel until you hear our decision.
Please head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Don’t miss this chance to learn from the best and mix with your peers.
XSharp Free Post-Conference Session
The XSharp Team is planning a Sunday afternoon (10/22) vendor session called “Migrating Your VFP App to .NET with X#.” Check out our Workshops page for all the up-to-date details.
If you’ve already registered for the conference and want to attend this session, email register@geekgatherings.com and we’ll add you to the post-conference list.
Only 64 days until we hope to gather in Scottsdale!
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! July 31st is next Monday and we thought we would pass along one more reminder just in case you forgot to add it your reminder list or put a yellow sticky note on your monitor. We still need people to register to make the in-person side of the conference happen.
Urgent: do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make in the coming weeks.
The conference takes place October 19-22, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. We would hate to see you lose out on the $100 discount and for those who really want to attend in-person, miss out on a spot in the first 50 registrations (the room limit we have for the conference space).
Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
If you’ve already registered, we thank you. Can you help us remind fellow developers who have been procrastinating about the looming deadline by sharing this email, sharing about it on social media, or posting on a forum how great a previous Southwest Fox or Virtual Fox Fest conference was for you? You can also spread the word by telling others you’re going on our Facebook event.
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Please beat the rush so we still have some fingernails left when August begins!
We appreciate all the support people have shown for the in-person conference with early registrations. We look forward to getting many more this week as we need them to make the “in-person go” decision; otherwise, we will be all virtual. If you’re planning to attend the virtual conference, please register now as it helps in our decision-making process.
Only 83 days until we gather in Scottsdale.
Speakers (swfox.net) and Sessions (swfox.net) for Southwest Fox 2023 have been announced, and registration is open! As I discussed earlier, we have a limit on the number of people who can attend in-person, and in less than 24 hours since registration opened, 1/3 of the spots have already been taken. So, if you’re considering attending in-person, register (Registration | Geek Gatherings) today or you could miss out! Also, Super-Saver Registration, which saves you $100, is available only through July 31st, so don’t wait. When registering, be sure to select the proper conference on the registration site: choose either the in-person event or the virtual event.
Only 100 days until we gather in-person in Scottsdale and virtually via Hopin via the Internet.
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2020, the first but likely not the last online event hosted by Geek Gatherings:
- Videos for all presentations are now available on YouTube for free to everyone, as our contribution to the VFP community. Be sure to subscribe to our channel.
- If you want materials (white papers and sample code) for the presentations, go to https://geekgatherings.com/Registration and “register” for the conference. You’re not really registering since it’s over, but in the Registration Fees section of the registration page, you’ll see “Virtual Fox Fest 2020 Session Materials (download)”. The cost of the materials is $49. There’s also an opportunity to sponsor Virtual Fox Fest, which means your name will be listed on our Sponsors page.
- We’re planning on doing a survey soon. It’ll be sent to all attendees but if you want to participate so you can help shape future events, email info@geekgatherings.com and ask to be included.
- We have tentative dates for an in-person Southwest Fox conference next year: October 14-17, 2021, at the same location as previous years: the SanTan Conference Center in Gilbert, Arizona. At this point, we don’t know whether we’ll be able to have an in-person event, but hope springs eternal!
- If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest, check out our Facebook page and see what you missed, then plan to attend a future one so you can join in the fun.
On a personal note, I found the Virtual Fox Fest exceeded my expectation on every front. It ran smooth, no show-stopping technical glitches, and the people who attended interacted just like when we are in-person with the exception of handshakes and hugs. I still walked away exhausted and energized at the same time. I’m looking forward to the next event, no matter where it is hosted and how we get together.
We are 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 Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced in that page and consider submitting sessions. If you previously submitted sessions for Southwest Fox 2020, you don’t need to resubmit for Virtual Fox Fest (but feel free to delete or revise your prior submissions or submit new sessions).
Only 155 days until we gather via the Internet!
We’re disappointed to announce that due to COVID-19, the annual Southwest Fox Conference is on hiatus in 2020. It was a difficult decision knowing how much fun we have when we get together each year, but it was appropriate given the circumstances we have been dealt. We are going to return to Gilbert for some face-to-face learning October 14-17, 2021. More exciting news about a new Fox conference for 2020 in my next post.
Only 519 days until we gather in Gilbert!
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 and then use the Submission site to send us your session proposals. We look forward to your ideas.
Only 227 days until we gather in Gilbert!
