Hi, Jordan

I cannot comment at this time about the budget MS Romania can/has put into VFP events. All I can say is I had some meetings at MS Romania regarding this matter.

However, the Romanian VFP programmers community is gaining stregth every day. We have in plan for next year a DevCon similar to Prague DevCon. If we'll have it, it will be a 3 days community-driven event.

For now my only concern is that this event to go well and everyone to be happy. Then we'll see what can we do next.

Thank you.


>Hi John,
>
>Yes you are correct. In most of less developed countries there is huge amount of programmers, which couldn't afford to pay $1000 to participate in conferences like Frankfurt DevCon.
>I think that Microsoft should spend part of it marketing budget for that kind of events. I know they did this in some countries.
>The problem is that they spent it, but for .Net events(every year in the end of june there is 2 days .Net/SQL conference in Sofia. Last year Ken talk about XAML and around 1000 atendees listened him). I suppose that with 1/10 of the bugget(I am familiar how much MS BG spent) for this conference could be done the similar for VFP programmers, but there is not interest. Romania is 3 times larger market than Bulgaria and FoxPro is more popular.
>My question is - Will MS Romania spend tiny part of their budget for that kind of conference. If yes I know at least 3-4 Romanians which could be lecturers with their good knowledge in VFP, they need small traning to not worry when they present notes. 2-3 europen lectures(Igor(CZ), Chetin(TR), Venelina(BG), etc. ) and 1-2 american could make the conference. Other will depend on organization abilities of Grigore to atract as many as possible attendees and to make good set of sessions.