Geek Gatherings LLC

03/19/2026

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.

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10/17/2025

Last call: Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is on October 29th and 30th, 2025. If you plan to attend the conference, please register today. It only takes a couple of minutes, and we only get busier the closer we get to the conference: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration

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09/29/2025

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!

09/11/2025

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 (https://virtualfoxfest.com/sessions.aspx):

* 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 (https://www.youtube.com/) 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.

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08/13/2025

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is a two-day event on October 29-30, 2025. We have some great speakers (https://virtualfoxfest.com/speakers.aspx) delivering great sessions (https://virtualfoxfest.com/sessions.aspx), 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!

04/22/2025

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 (https://geekgatherings.com/Registration). If you wait until tomorrow, the price goes up to $139.

Only 15 days until we gather on the Internet!

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04/02/2025

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.

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!

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03/24/2025

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. We have some great speakers (https://virtualfoxfest.com/speakers.aspx) delivering great sessions (https://virtualfoxfest.com/sessions.aspx), 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 two brand new sessions. 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!

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07/31/2024

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

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07/25/2024

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: [email protected]
* If you have ideas or suggestions for this year's Southwest Fox, please email them to: [email protected]
* 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

07/09/2024

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/Registration

Contact Us:
* Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: [email protected]
* If you have ideas or suggestions for this year's Southwest Fox, please email them to: [email protected]
* 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

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06/27/2024

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 (https://swfox.net/speakers.aspx) and dig into our sessions (https://swfox.net/sessions.aspx). Follow the news (https://swfox.net/news.aspx) about the conference and our blog (https://swfox.net/blog/).

Southwest Fox 2023 Videos
We plan to release the videos for the following sessions in early July on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/):

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: [email protected]

If you have ideas or suggestions for this year's Southwest Fox, please email them to: [email protected]

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.