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	<description>The Southwest Fox Conference is a conference designed to bring information about developing Visual FoxPro applications and solutions to the FoxPro Community. The focus of this blog is to communicate details about the conference to the people interested in attending or presenting at the conference.</description>
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		<title>Help us plan Southwest Fox 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Southwest Fox 2011 was a great success. Now we’re trying to figure out what form next year’s event will take. You can help us by answering a few questions about your preferences. Please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCCKNDG, so we can include your input.
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		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/12/help-us-plan-southwest-fox-2012/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you are unaware, there are a lot of FoxPro user groups and regional conferences hosting Southwest Fox Rehearsals, you might want to check out a relatively new page on the Southwest Fox Web site: Session Rehearsals Rehearsals are important for a couple of reasons:

Speakers refine and enhance their sessions based on feedback.
Frees up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/10/179/</link>
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		<title>Schedule available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve posted the session schedule for Southwest Fox 2011. Expect the Kokopelli application to help you plan your personal schedule soon; Dave Aring is working on this year&#8217;s version.
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		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/10/schedule-available/</link>
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		<title>Steven Black to speak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to announce that Steven Black is speaking at Southwest Fox this year. Steve Black is one of the truly outstanding speakers in our community. His sessions are lively, thought-provoking, and entertaining, a killer combination. Steve hasn’t been to SWFox since 2005 due to other commitments, so he’s been sorely missed.
Steve&#8217;s sessions are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/09/steven-black-to-speak/</link>
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		<title>Win a copy of Visual Extend or Stonefield Query SDK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is registered for Southwest Fox 2011 before midnight EDT on September 15th (including those who are already registered) is eligible for one of two drawings for a Visual Extend license (which sells for $1070) and a Stonefield Query SDK license (which sells for $6000). Thanks to Visual Extend and Stonefield Query for their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/09/win-a-copy-of-visual-extend-or-stonefield-query-sdk/</link>
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		<title>Southwest Fox 2011 Scholarship winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two different kinds of scholarships available to offset the costs of Southwest Fox. White Light Computing (Rick&#8217;s company) offers two $150 scholarships to early registrants. Tomorrow&#8217;s Solutions, LLC (my company) offers one $150 scholarship to early registrants who have never previously attended Southwest Fox.
The White Light Computing Scholarship winners for this year are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/08/southwest-fox-2011-scholarship-winners/</link>
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		<title>Win a copy of DBi Technologies Studio Controls for COM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is registered for Southwest Fox 2011 before midnight EDT on September 1st (including those who are already registered) is eligible for one of three drawings for a DBi Technologies Studio Controls for COM license (which sells for $749). Thanks to DBi for their ongoing support of Southwest Fox!
In addition, we&#8217;re trying to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/08/win-a-copy-of-dbi-technologies-studio-controls-for-com/</link>
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		<title>Last chance for SuperSaver registration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that anyone registering for Southwest Fox by Monday, July 25 is eligible for the SuperSaver discount rate of $645. Registration includes entrance to all regular conference sessions, two lunches, one dinner, access to white papers for all regular conference sessions, and much more.
Check out the list of speakers and sessions at http://www.swfox.net/speakers.aspx. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/07/last-chance-for-supersaver-registration/</link>
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		<title>Ticket Bucket Ch-ch-changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We tried something new for pricing Southwest Fox this year. Instead of using calendar deadlines, we divided the number of attendees we expect into a set of &#8220;buckets,&#8221; with an increased price for each bucket. We even put the number of seats left in each bucket on the conference home page. 
The reason for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/07/ticket-bucket-ch-ch-changes/</link>
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		<title>Deadline for free precon is July 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick reminder that the July 1 deadline for getting a free pre-conference session with your registration is just around the corner. After that, each precon you attend is $99, as is a second precon when you get the first one free.
We have a great line-up of half-day pre-conference sessions this year. The choices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/06/deadline-for-free-precon-is-july-1/</link>
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		<title>Speakers and Sessions Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2011 have been announced. Continuing our tradition of trying to invite new speakers every year, this year we are pleased to have Steve Bodnar and Kevin Ragsdale present at SWFox. 
The conference features 4 half-day pre-conference sessions and more than 25 main conference sessions in five tracks. Whether you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/05/speakers-and-sessions-announced/</link>
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		<title>Registration opens June 1st</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Registration for Southwest Fox 2011 opens on June 1, 2011!
In past years we opened registration on May 1st, so why the delay this year? The conference is later this year by a couple of weeks because of the Jewish holy days. Traditionally we only get a few registrations in the month of May so we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/05/registration-opens-june-1st/</link>
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		<title>Speaker Proposals due Monday, March 28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2011 are due by next Monday, March 28. For details, read the Call for Speakers document linked at http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx.
NOTE: If you have sent in your proposals and have not received an acknowledgment, it means we did not receive them. Please send an email [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/03/speaker-proposals-due-monday-march-28/</link>
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		<title>Nominations Open for 2011 Ceil Silver Ambassador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund brings a developer to the Southwest Fox conference in the United States 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/03/nominations-open-for-2011-ceil-silver-ambassador/</link>
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		<title>Southwest 2011 Call for Speakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we released the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2011. Anyone interested in presenting should visit the Call for Speakers page on the Southwest Fox website, read the complete Call for Speakers document (linked from that page), and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 28.
As in the past few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/03/southwest-2011-call-for-speakers/</link>
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		<title>Southwest Fox 2011 dates announced&#8211;October 26-29, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendars! We&#8217;ve nailed down the dates for Southwest Fox 2011. It&#8217;ll take place October 26-29 and we&#8217;ll return to the SanTan Legado and Elegante in Gilbert, AZ. There will be a post-conference event on the afternoon of October 29 and the morning of October 30.
There are several differences this year:

First, we&#8217;re in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2011/01/southwest-fox-2011-dates-announced-october-26-29-2011/</link>
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		<title>2010 VFPX Administrators Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The VFPX Administrators Award is an annual award given by the VFPX Administrators (Craig Boyd, Rick Schummer, and Doug Hennig) to recognize those people who made outstanding contributions to the VFP community through their projects on VFPX. The nominees this year were:

Jim Nelson for his work on PEM Editor, Code References, and FoxChart Tools (add-ons)
David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2010/10/2010-vfpx-administrators-award/</link>
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		<title>2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was my great pleasure to announce at Southwest Fox 2010 the recipients of the 2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award: Lisa Slater Nicholls and Rick Schummer. The stars must have been perfectly aligned because Lisa’s husband, well-known FoxPro guru Colin, and Rick’s wife Therese and parents Phil and Carole were in attendance. I obviously had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2010/10/2010-foxpro-lifetime-achievement-award-recipients/</link>
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		<title>Keynote Speaker: Craig Boyd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keynotes at Southwest Fox are normally exciting and this year we think we have a real winner lined up.
While Craig Boyd couldn&#8217;t do his planned sessions at this year&#8217;s Southwest Fox, we did some arm twisting and put on the full court press to convince him to do the keynote presentation.
We are waiting for Craig [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2010/09/keynote-speaker-craig-boyd/</link>
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		<title>Keeping conference delegates informed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conferences are dynamic in nature and organizers have a lot of details to pass along to the people who come each year. The Southwest Fox organizers process communication via email and we normally get high marks for keeping people informed.
We already have sent out three emails to people who are registered:
1) Early August
Added Eric Selje [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://swfox.net/blog/2010/09/keeping-conference-delegates-informed/</link>
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