Great news! We've extended the deadline for SuperSaver registration for Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ 2012. Register by Monday, July 9 and save $125 on your registration fee, and get one free pre-conference or post-conference session. Don't miss the chance to learn from the best and meet your colleagues face-to-face.
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 and Xbase++! July 1 is only a few days away and we thought we would pass along a reminder just in case you forgot to type it into your task list, or stick it on your monitor on a yellow sticky note.
The conferences take place October 18-21, 2012 in Gilbert, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. We would hate to see you miss out on the $125 discount and the free pre-conference or post-conference session. These sessions are more popular than ever this year. One person has registered for four pre-cons, and all three post-cons!
Already registered? Thanks. Can you help us remind your fellow developers who have been procrastinating that the deadline is looming? Anything else you can do to promote the conference would also be appreciated.
Also, if you sent in your registration and have not received your confirmation, please contact us to see what has happened. Everyone gets a confirmation and a paid invoice as a receipt when registration is processed.
Special drawings for people who register before July 1st:
Check out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our session tracks. Follow the news about the conference on our blog.
There are only two more days (the deadline is June 21) to register for Southwest Fox or Southwest Xbase++ to be eligible for a drawing of a tablet: iPad 2 with 16GB of memory (value of $399), Kindle Fire (value of $199), or Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (value of $399) (winner gets to pick).
Registering before June 21 also makes you eligible for the other goodies we’re offering (these drawings are from everyone who registers before July 1):
Plus you save $125 off the regular conference price, plus you get a free pre-conference or post-conference session, plus those registering for Southwest Fox get a free copy of Lianja App Builder Standard Edition (valued at $395, courtesy of Lianja Inc.), plus you get access to all the session materials (even those sessions you don’t attend), plus all the networking opportunities, plus … I could go on for a while here, but I think you get the point.
Rick Schummer blogged about a new book on VFPX, VFPX: Open Source Treasure for the VFP Developer. He said it all, so I’ll just point you to his blog to read all about it.
Geek Gatherings is adding an incentive to get you to register early. In addition to all the perks you get when registering before July 1st (a $125 discount, a free pre-conference or post-conference session, and a chance for a $150 scholarship or Stonefield Query SDK), one person who registers before June 21st wins a tablet!
The winner will select one of the following:
Winner is selected on July 3, 2012 from the list of people registered before June 21st.
Lianja Inc. is offering a FREE COPY of Lianja App Builder Standard Edition, valued at $395, for all attendees of Southwest Fox. Build data-centric Apps on Windows, Mac or Linux using your Visual FoxPro, Python, PHP or JavaScript expertise and then deploy on the Desktop, Web and Mobile.
Geek Gatherings is pleased to announce that the 2012 Ceil Silver Ambassador is Jun Tangunan. Jun is a well-known member of the Foxite VFP community site and has a great blog at http://sandstorm36.blogspot.com.
The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund raises money from the VFP community to bring a developer to the Southwest Fox conference 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.
The Fund is named in memory of Ceil Silver, a long-time member of the Visual FoxPro community, who passed away in January, 2009. Ceil served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor's Tips and Tricks column for many years and was the founder of the Westchester County FoxPro chapter of PADD, the Professional Association of Database Developers. She was also a contributing author to Special Edition Using Visual FoxPro 6. Ceil understood the value of attending professional conferences, and continued to attend them until her failing health prevented it.
A couple of announcements about the fall conferences:
First, registration is now open for both Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++. Registrations have been already been pouring in, which is great news.
I blogged about this last year, but I think it bears repeating. Last year was a tough, scary year for us. By mid-August, we were in full panic mode, as we were so far below breakeven that it looked like a five-figure loss for us. Fortunately, a larger-than-usual number of people signed up after September 1; that combined with an increase in sponsorship took us over the top. So, one thing I ask: if you love Southwest Fox like we do, and want to see it continue, do us a favor and register early this year. That would take out the panic for us and allow us to plan for the type of conference we really want to host.
Second, speakers and sessions for Southwest Xbase++ are now available. Remember, if you register for one conference, you’re free to attend sessions in the other conference as well: it’s BOGO (buy one, get one free). There are some sessions specifically intended for VFP developers, including Project PolarFox: State of the Union and Xbase++ 2.0 from a VFP Developer's Perspective. Also, some of the Southwest Fox session will appeal to Xbase++ developers, such as Advanced Topics in Mercurial: Taking it to the Next Level, jQuery 101, and Office Automation Without Office.
I think it’s cool that we’ll have a whole new set of attendees (the Xbase++ folks) at the conferences this year. It’ll give us more chances to talk to fellow developers and share cool ideas.
Tamar, Rick, and I are all looking forward to seeing you in Phoenix this October!
The FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have contributed a great deal to the FoxPro community over the years. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP for previous award recipients. These recipients wish to continue the award and have created a committee to select a recipient for 2012. The committee consists of all 11 living previous recipients, Alan Griver (yag), and Sergey Berezniker representing the FoxPro community.
To submit your nominations for the 2012 recipients, please post a comment here by June 15, 2012.
Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2012 have been announced. We’re glad to welcome back a couple of speakers who haven’t been to Southwest Fox in a long time: Rod Paddock and Kevin McNeish. And of course Cathy Knight, Kevin Cully, and Rick Strahl, who didn’t speak at the conference last year.
I saw Kevin McNeish’s iPhone/iPad app development track in Germany last year and these sessions are so good, we specifically asked Kevin to do a full-day of training at Southwest Fox this year. If you’re interested in iOS development, register before July 1 so you get half of the day for free!
Some of the sessions I’m personally looking forward to are:
I’m very excited by this year’s lineup and think you will be too. Registration opens in a couple of weeks with a new online registration site. See you in October!
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