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Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is a two-day event on October 21-22, 2026. Great speakers will deliver great sessions, with chat available for all of us to comment, ask questions, and share experiences. Plus, we’ll get 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. Register for the conference at https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today! Early-Bird pricing is available through August 31st.
Only 90 days until we gather via the Internet!
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest 2026: https://virtualfoxfest.com/CallForSpeakers.aspx. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page before submitting sessions.
The deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is next Monday, June 1st.
Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is a two-day online conference presenting the latest in Visual FoxPro and Visual FoxPro Advanced development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
If you haven’t already marked your calendar, do it now. The conference is going to be on October 21st -22nd, 2026.
Only 148 days until we gather via the Internet.
We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2026 (Oct), a two-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
The conference will be held on October 21st-22nd, 2026. This is the only event we are planning for 2026.
We’ll issue the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest later in the Spring. If you are interested in presenting, please watch your emails and our public posts for the submission deadlines.
White Light Computing will be a Platinum Sponsor, and CleverFox Backup will be a Gold Sponsor of the conference.
Only 216 days until we gather virtually on the Internet.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday October 30, 2025.
This Tuesday (September 30th) is the last day you can save US$40, so please go register now. If you wait until Wednesday, the price goes up to US$279.
https://geekgatherings.com/registration
Only 30 days until we gather on the Internet!
You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct) is October 29-30, 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:
- Introducing SideKick (Tore Bleken)
- The VFP Developer’s Guide to Git and Sourcetree (Rick Borup)
- It’s time to RESTful with XSharp (Fabrice Foray)
- Lessons in buffering and transactions (Tamar E. Granor)
- Document and Email Management in VFP Applications (Doug Hennig)
- SQL Server Mash-Up (Jody L. Meyer)
- J, J, J… SON, SON, SON… – Using SQL Server’s Killer Built-in JSON Functionality (Kevin Ragsdale)
- VFP C++ Compiler: options and settings for modern, secure applications (John Ryan)
- Using Google Calendar in VFP (Tuvia Vinitsky)
- Git Advanced Techniques (Christof Wollenhaupt)
Registration is US$239 before October 1st, so save yourself US$40 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.
The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has more than 70 videos with session content from Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox conferences over the last five years. That is nearly 90 hours of viewing. Those who subscribe to the channel may already know this, but we recently released all the Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) videos for your viewing pleasure.
Only 48 days until we virtually gather on RingCentral Events!
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 31st. 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.
We really want to have an in-person conference. We love the chance to see members of our community face-to-face and interact both during conference hours and outside them. If that matters to you, we need you to show up this year. Without at least 15 more in-person registrations by July 26, we will have to switch to an all-virtual conference, and we won’t be planning any future in-person events. 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 soon after July 26th.We extended the Super-Saver rate through the end of the day Tuesday, July 9, 2024 as an added incentive.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 today: https://geekgatherings.com/RegistrationContact 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 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 DetailsCheck out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our sessions. Follow the news about the conference and our blog.
Southwest Fox 2023 VideosWe 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.
We have officially opened registration for Southwest Fox 2024! The highly acclaimed developer conference is September 26-29, 2024.Southwest Fox is a hybrid conference: in-person and virtual. The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale, the same location as last year, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the RingCentral platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). All sessions will be presented in a single room and will be streamed to the virtual event and recorded. This year we plan to add a second screen so people can see the presentations easier from the back of the room.The in-person conference room is small, so we have to limit registrations for the in-person event to the first 40 people who register. Those who are not in the first 40 will be added to a wait list or can decide to register for the virtual event. The virtual side of Southwest Fox can handle an unlimited number of attendees. If you really want to attend in-person, we suggest you register as soon as practical.Super-Saver Registration for in-person, which saves you $200 (or $100 for virtual), is available only through June 30th, so don’t wait. Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. You’ll have to select either the in-person event or the virtual event.Registration fees start at $599 for in-person and $349 for virtual. More details are available on the conference’s registration page.Important hotel detailsWe have a limited number of rooms at the hotel for those attending in-person. We will send you the link once we process your registration.FlightsPlease do NOT book your flights yet. Our hotel contract gives us some flexibility to see how registration is going before we’re absolutely committed. We’ll let you know when it’s time to book.Here is what you can expect from Southwest Fox:1. Terrific selection of sessions from great presenters. 2. A total of 15 regular conference topics to pack your days with learning opportunities and inspiration. 3. Half-days on Thursday and Sunday for a more relaxed schedule and to make it easier for the virtual attendees. 4. Lunch Friday and Saturday for all in-person attendees. The conference website has been updated with this year’s information and includes: News about the sessions and speakers. * The general schedule. * Specifics about the conference hotel. * The conference blog where you can find our thoughts and perspectives. * The link to our X (Twitter) feed. * Opportunities for conference sponsorship. * Ways you can help us promote the conference. 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 Make sure to share the news about the conference to all your developer friends. We appreciate any help with marketing and word of mouth is one of the best ways to spread the news about our conference.Only 114 days until we gather in Scottsdale and over the Internet.
Virtual Fox Fest 2024 is on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, which is less than three weeks from now! We are getting close, and the preparations are in full swing.
Ready to sign up? Just click https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
Speaking of getting close, the Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel is closing in on 1000 subscribers and we would love to leap far over this milestone. Please subscribe and check the notification bell so you can be one of the first to learn when we release the videos from last year’s Southwest Fox. The channel has over 60 videos with session content from all the Virtual Fox Fest conferences over the last four years. That is over 75 hours of viewing. Here is a link to a session from 2022:
DevOps with Visual FoxPro (Joel Leach)
Only 19 days until we gather via the Internet.
Virtual Fox Fest 2024 is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. 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 2024, 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!
In case you missed it, we’ve already announced Southwest Fox 2024 in Arizona, September 26-29, 2024. More details for this hybrid conference coming in May. The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale and the virtual side on the Hopin platform via the Internet.
Only 59 days until we gather via the Internet.
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2024, a hybrid conference; you decide whether to come in-person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). You can get more information on the Southwest Fox Conference Web page.
The conference will take place September 26-29, 2024.
Call for Speakers
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page to learn about submitting sessions.
Only 212 days until we gather in Scottsdale and virtually on Hopin.
We have locked in our dates for our 2024 conferences and hope you will save the dates to attend.
Our one-day Virtual Fox Fest 2024 will be Wednesday, May 8, 2024. It still has the same great features everyone loves about VFF: 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 2024.
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2024, a hybrid conference, September 26-29, 2024. You decide whether to come in person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. The virtual event will use the Ring Central Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest).
Web sites will be updated in the new year. Call for speakers will be announced later in February so get your ideas prepared.
White Light Computing will be a Platinum sponsor for both conferences. CleverFox Backup will be a Gold sponsor for both conferences.
Only 139 days until we gather virtually for Virtual Fox Fest
Only 280 days until we gather in-person and virtually for Southwest Fox in Scottsdale
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.
The fate of Southwest Fox is being decided Wednesday, August 30th. Help us make the decision to keep this conference going easy. We won’t charge your credit card until September. There is no more time for you to procrastinate. It simply is now or never. If you are going to Southwest Fox this year (in-person [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2023, a hybrid conference; you decide whether to come in-person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). You can get more information on the Southwest Fox Conference Web page: https://swfox.net/.The conference will take place October 19-22, 2023.We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox (https://swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.aspx). If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page to learn about submitting sessions.White Light Computing is once again a Platinum sponsor of this terrific event.Only 160 days until we gather in Scottsdale, AZ.
Virtual Fox Fest 2023 (May) is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. 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 2023, 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!
We’re planning Southwest Fox in Arizona this October. We expect to announce our plans for a hybrid (in-person and virtual) fall conference some time in April.
White Light Computing is a Platinum sponsor of Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox.
Only 60 days until we gather virtually via the Internet.
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (October):
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Videos for all presentations are now available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLb2rL3ALQW9g5r-qqf_jA/videos) for free to everyone, as our contribution to the VFP community. Be sure to subscribe to our channel.
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If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest and 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 Session Materials” for previous events. There’s also an opportunity to sponsor Virtual Fox Fest, which means your name will be listed on our Sponsors page (https://virtualfoxfest.com/sponsors.aspx).
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Check out our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/769548681104749/) and see what was going on at the conference, then plan to attend a future one so you can join in the fun.
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If you are on Twitter, you can check out more by searching for #VirtualFoxFest
Virtual Fox Fest: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
One day since we met virtually on the Internet.
Thanks to all who have registered for Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (October). Early registrants help us plan ahead. This is another friendly reminder to the rest of you that it takes just a few minutes to register. We’re really excited about this year’s Virtual Fox Fest line-up and we know you will be, too. You can [...]
Last call! (we want to make sure we have your attention) The Early-Bird discount ends midnight (North American Eastern time) on Wednesday, which is just a couple of days away. Here is the direct link to get registered! (https://geekgatherings.com/Registration) Virtual Fox Fest is October 13, 19, and 25, 2022! Only 45 days until we gather [...]
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share their sessions with you soon. Please register for Virtual Fox Fest before September 1st, our Early-Bird deadline. We know you are interested in saving $50, and we would appreciate processing the bulk of the [...]
Speakers and Sessions for Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (October) have been announced, and registration is open! Virtual Fox Fest is October 13, 19, and 25, 2022! Only 71 days until we gather virtually via the Internet!
We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (October), a three-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details [...]
We are down to the last minute and the registration squad is providing one last incentive to get you to register now because the next week is already busy. While we don’t mind registering people at the last minute, it is hectic just before the conference and it is much easier to process registrations today [...]
Thanks to all who registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support. This is another friendly reminder to the rest of you that it takes just a few minutes to register, here is the link: register me now Emails to registered attendees begin next week with all the details about the conference. You can order [...]
Friendly reminder: if you have not registered for VirtualFoxFest 2022 (May), head on over to https://geekgatherings.com/Registration and get it done before you get distracted again by work. It is important for your long-term development career. Only 30 days before we gather on the Internet!
Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (May) is a one-day event on Thursday, May 5, 2022. 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 a mix of new and classic sessions from previous conferences, updated for 2022. Registration details, deadlines, and [...]
Last call! (I want to make sure we have your attention) The Early Bird discount ends midnight (North American Eastern time) on Thursday, which is tomorrow night. Here is the direct link to get registered: http://geekgatherings.com/registration Virtual Fox Fest is October 14, 20, and 26, 2021! Only 15 days until we gather via the Internet.
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share all their sessions with you all soon. There is less than a month until the first day of the conference! That said, we know there are procrastinators who have not registered and have good [...]
Speakers and sessions for Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October) have been announced, and registration is open! https://www.virtualfoxfest.com Only 58 days until we meet virtually over the Internet.
Just a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest is next Monday, June 7th. You’ll find details on our Call for Speakers page, https://virtualfoxfest.com/CallForSpeakers.aspx. We look forward to your ideas and session proposals. Virtual Fox Fest is October 14, 20, and 26, 2021! Only 134 days until we gather virtually [...]
We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October), a three-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details [...]
Our thanks to all those who responded to our plea not to wait for the last minute. Here’s a reminder in case you got busy and forgot… Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (May) is next week on May 6, 2021! Get registered today! https://geekgatherings.com/Registration Only 10 days until we gather virtually via the Internet! We look [...]
We’re glad so many have already registered for the May 6th Virtual Fox Fest. We still have room for many more. If you’re planning to attend, please register sooner rather than later. Our hard working registration staff (Rick) is an organizer, and has a full-time job and then some working on customer projects. If too [...]
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest (May 6, 2021); we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share their sessions with you soon. That said, we know there are those who have not registered and have good intentions to do so before the conference starts. Please do so [...]
We had so much fun at Virtual Fox Fest 2020 that we’ve decided to do more online conferences. They won’t all be three-day events; in fact, the next one (Thursday, May 6, 2021) is a one-day event. However, it’ll still have the same great features everyone loves about VFF: great speakers delivering great sessions, live [...]
We have 11 quick questions to help us plan future Virtual Fox Fest conferences. We would really appreciate your input: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/F8ZLX9J Happy Holidays and wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2021 to all.
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 [...]
But the number of days is dwindling to do so. Our thanks to all those who responded to our plea not to wait for the last minute. Here’s a reminder in case you got busy and forgot… Virtual Fox Fest starts next week and is held October 15, 21, and 27, 2020! Get registered today! http://geekgatherings.com/Registration [...]
Only a couple of weeks until day 1 of the conference… . We know there are procrastinators who have not registered and have good intentions to do so before the conference starts. Please, please, please do so sooner than later. Our hard working registration staff of one is also a presenter who is practicing and [...]
We’re pleased to announce GeekWear by Geek Gatherings. Order your Virtual Fox Fest gear from the options shown or create your own unique VFFwear. Unfortunately, because of family matters, Cathy Pountney had to withdraw from presenting this year. Fortunately, John Ryan offered to present “Visual FoxPro Advanced and VFP C++ Compiler: a New Lease of Life for [...]
Speakers and Sessions for Virtual Fox Fest 2020 have been announced, and registration is open! White Light Computing is a Platinum sponsor and has three speakers including myself, Jody Meyer, and Cathy Pountney. We are looking forward to sharing our knowledge with the Fox Community. Virtual Fox Fest is October 15, 21, and 27, 2020! [...]
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. Virtual Fox Fest is October 15, 21, and 27, 2020! Only 139 days until we virtually gather on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2020. If you’re interested in presenting, please read the document referenced in that page and consider submitting sessions via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site. The conference dates are November 12-15, 2020. Only 258 days until we gather in Gilbert!
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”. https://www.facebook.com/events/394866431196460/ Only 16 days until we gather in Gilbert!
Because we were all busy this summer, we extended the Early-Bird Registration deadline, but it’s almost here. Save $50 by registering before today, Friday, August 30th at Midnight (Eastern Time). Every registered attendee gets admission and white papers to all regular conference sessions, tons of networking opportunities, plus you can register for a free admission [...]
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 (Sunday night at midnight ET – just 5 days from this post). If you register before the end of June, you save $125 and we’ll throw in a pre-conference session worth $99. [...]
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 [...]
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. We also let you pick a free pre-con if you register by June 30th. Putting on a conference is a [...]
Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2019 have been announced. This is going to be a terrific conference, and I am looking forward to it as much as I have ever looked forward to any previous Southwest Fox!
I am presenting again this year: Get More Productive With Visual FoxPro
White Light Computing is a Platinum level sponsor and CleverFox Backup is a Gold level sponsor.
Only 171 days until we gather in Gilbert.
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2019. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced in that page and consider submitting sessions via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site. Southwest Fox 2019 is going to be held October 24-27, 2019 in Gilbert, Arizona. Only 247 days until we gather in Gilbert.
Simple quick reminder: save $50 by registering before the early-bird registration deadline next Tuesday, July 31st.
If you still need to register, please head over to the registration Web site today: http://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Every registered attendee gets admission and white papers to all regular conference sessions. Don’t miss this chance to learn from the best and mix with your peers.
See you in October!
Only 85 days until we gather in Gilbert!
We have some good news to share today. Thanks to the support of the Visual FoxPro community, a very generous supporter who made a large donation, and our many sponsors, Southwest Fox 2018 will proceed as planned October 18-21, 2018 in Gilbert, AZ.
We really appreciate all the support people have shown for the conference with early registrations! That said, the decision comes with a serious calculated risk because we are still many registrations short of the breakeven point. 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. Register before August 1st for a $50 early-bird discount.
Only 108 days until we meet in Gilbert. I hope to see you there.
Registration for Southwest Fox 2018 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 the speakers and topics on the conference website.
Please beat the rush so we still have some fingernails left when July begins! No need to wait, we won’t charge your card or cash your check until the middle of July!
I’m looking forward to seeing you all in October.
Only 113 days until we gather in Gilbert!