Shedding Some Light

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is a two-day event on October 29-30, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/

Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today!

White Light Computing is once again proud to be a Platinum sponsor of this event. CleverFox Backup is a Gold sponsor of the conference too.

Only 77 days until we gather virtually via the Internet.

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Today (April 22nd) is the last day you can save $20, so please go register now. If you wait until tomorrow, the price goes up to $139.

Only 15 days until we gather on the Internet!

You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out:

* Hidden Treasures: The FoxPro Foundation Classes (Borup, Rick)
* Can’t This Application Go Any Faster? (Granor, Tamar E.)
* Practical Version Control: Using Git and GitHub in Your Daily Work (Hennig, Doug)
* 64-bit VFP Development (Ryan, John)
* The Security Cookbook (Wollenhaupt, Christof)

https://virtualfoxfest.com/sessions.aspx

The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has over 65 videos with session content from past Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox conferences over the last five years. That is over 80 hours of viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/@geekgatherings

Registration is US$119 before April 23rd, so save yourself US$20 by registering today. This cost includes admission to all live sessions, all session materials (white papers and samples), immediate access to all recorded videos of the presentations, and access to online social events.

Register here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.

Only 35 days until we gather on the Internet!

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions (from previous conferences), updated for 2025, along with at least one brand new session. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/

Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today!

Only 44 days until we gather on the Internet!

Thanks to our generous speakers stepping up and shouldering some of the financial risks, additional sponsorship, and our hope that the community will respond with more registrations, we are announcing that Southwest Fox 2024 will go on as planned in-person and virtually September 26-29, 2024. That said, it is with heavy hearts that we announce this is the final in-person Southwest Fox conference that we are going to put on as it’s clear the economics no longer work. Our plan is to move forward with Virtual Fox Fests in the future.

This is your last chance to hang out with the Fox gang in Phoenix, so if you were thinking about attending sometime, this is the time.

A final reminder, the Early-Bird discount expires today, Wednesday, July 31^st. https://geekgatherings.com/Registration

Only 57 days until we gather in Scottsdale.

We really want to have an in-person conference. If you plan to be at the in-person conference, please register today if you have not already done so. We are still short of our minimum to make the in-person side of the conference happen by six people. Even if we get six more in-person registrations, we are taking a financial risk. If you plan to attend virtually, please register for the virtual conference as this impacts the choice we have to make in the coming days.

Plus, if you register now, you get the early-bird discount, which expires on August 1.

For those signed up for the in-person conference, do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make this Friday, July 26th.

The conference takes place September 26-29, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. Head over to the registration Web site now: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration

Contact Us:

• Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
• If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
• If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
• Call: 586.254.2530

Only 64 days until we hope to gather in Scottsdale.

Only 79 days until we hope to gather in Scottsdale…

Hear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick…

That’s the countdown clock at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the Super-saver deadline for Southwest Fox! June 30th is this Sunday 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 September 26-29, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. If you really want to attend in-person, we would hate to see you miss out on a seat in the room (the in-person limit is 40 registrations). Whether you plan to attend in-person or virtually, surely you don’t to lose out on the Super-saver discount ($200 for in-person or $100 for virtual).

Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration

If you’ve already registered, we thank you. Please help us remind fellow developers who have been procrastinating about the looming deadline by sharing this email, spreading 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.

Nitty-Gritty Details

Check out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our sessions. Follow the news about the conference and our blog.

Southwest Fox 2023 Videos

We plan to release the videos for the following sessions in early July on our YouTube channel:

• Advanced Reporting with Microsoft Excel
• ParallelFox 2.0
• Logging: Clear Cut Solutions for Your Apps

As an added incentive, if the Early-Bird registrations are good (meaning we are not chewing our fingernails), we will also release these sessions at the same time:

• Optimize Your IDE: Take Full Advantage of Thor Tools Part 1
• Team Git: Collaboration Made Easy
• Modern Authentication with VFP

Contact Us

• Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
• If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
• If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
• Call: 586.254.2530

Please beat the rush so we still have some fingernails left when July 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 get closer 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.