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Register for Southwest Fox by downloading the
Registration application. Although filling in the form and sending your
registration is very easy, we've created a
video showing you how to use the
application.
A conference brochure is available for download.
The main conference is Thursday, October 15 through Sunday, October
18, 2009. Pre-conference sessions are available on Thursday, October 15.
Register before July 1, 2009 for a $125 super-saver discount
and one
free half-day pre-conference session. Register before
September 1, 2009 for a $50 early-bird discount.
Main Conference Pricing
Super-saver price (before July 1, 2009): $620
Early-bird price (before September 1): $695
Regular price (September 1 and later): $745
Pre-Conference Pricing
Super-saver price (before July 1, 2009): First one free! Second one
is $99
Regular price (July 1 and later): $99 per session
What's Included
- Entrance to the keynote on Thursday evening.
- Entrance to all conference sessions on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday**.
- Entrance to any bonus sessions offered in the evening.
- Lunch Friday and Saturday.
- Dinner one of the nights of the conference (undecided at
this point, but last year it was Friday night).
- Access to all whitepapers (required for each session),
examples and slides (if offered by the speaker). These will be available on our FTP
site before the conference starts so you can read in advance, print out, and
bring to the conference if you like.
- Access to the vendors area where vendors will be selling tools,
products, and services.
- Lots of time to network with other Visual FoxPro
developers.
- Conference booklet (PDF if you accept the "green
registration").
- Conference t-shirt.
- Conference bag with materials.
- Lots of networking opportunities with the presenters and
other conference attendees.
**Each of the 28 regular sessions are offered twice each on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. With 15 slots that means at best you can attend just over half of them. This is why it is so important that each
speaker provides a white paper for their sessions. You can read up on the
materials you cannot see in person and even contact the speaker with questions
after the conference, or during the conference if you wish. Our speakers are
some of the best in the world and are very open to discussing their topics
anytime during the conference.
Our session schedule will be available in early September.
Sessions will run in four rooms during a given time slot. You have the sometimes
difficult job of picking which session you want during each time slot. We also
have the KOKOPELLI application available in early September which does a pretty
good job of helping you pick sessions you are most interested in and it will
suggest a schedule that best fits your choices.
Optional
Optionally you can attend pre-conference sessions in the morning and afternoon
Thursday (lunch is included if you sign up for two sessions). These are $99 each;
the first one is free
if you register before July 1, 2009.
Other Costs to Budget
- Parking at your home airport if you do not take a taxi or
get a ride from someone else.
- Travel to and from Phoenix (typically airfare unless you
live within driving distance).
- Travel from the Phoenix airport to the conference hotel and return to
the airport.
- Hotel room.
- Other meals not noted (depending on registrations we may
offer breakfast as we have in past years).
- Bar bill: people who attend the conference like to extend
their day talking about Visual FoxPro and catching up with friends.
User Group Discount
Geek Gatherings is offering a unique discount to user groups. Please
see the User Groups
page for details.
White Light Computing offers Southwest Fox Scholarship
Do you want to get almost half of your conference fee covered by
Southwest Fox platinum sponsor White Light Computing? See the
White Light Computing Scholarship page
for details.
Conference Attendance Justification Help Offer
Is your boss giving you a hard time about attending a VFP conference?
Let us know. Rick Schummer is willing to talk to or email each and every
one of them to help you get the okay to head to any FoxPro conference.
He is totally serious. Rick has fought numerous times with former bosses
to get himself to a conference as well as teammates. He has a way of
getting them to see the light!
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