>Salut Thierry,
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>>Rick has the courage of creative opinions, his points are worth considering.
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>Instead of just posting negative things, you could just let those great people do their work.
>If they succeed, good for them, and good for those who will attend the Conference.
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>But it is not appropriate to come here and put such posts in that way.
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>SWFOX is fantastic, most of the greatest resources we have been sharing in the VFP community in the latest years come from that Conference.
>Even sometimes not being able to access the materials of the Conference, we have been benefiting from them, because in several ways that knowledge end being shared, via directly published articles from the authors, tips in forums, and other utilities, or tools published
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>The organizers and the usual speakers are responsible for 99% of the main projects and contents we have been benefitting in the last 10 years...
>We have a HUGE amount of whitepapers available.
>A HUGE amount of utilities.
>VFPX was created and is still administrated by these people
>Several big and minor VFPX projects were born in the meetings there.
>We owe to these people, the organizers and palestrants the stage that we share in VFP.
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>Instead of just criticizing, Rick can create his own virtual conference.
>Rick can provide all the contents he wants for free.
>Rick can share whatever he wants.
>Rick can work for free to whoever he desires.
>Rick can offer money to people.
>Rick can create a campaign to call people to help him in his projects.
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>But Rick cannot tell other people who are doing a fantastic work for years what they need to do, and discourage other people.
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>Rick has been hidden for years in his own VFP world, and it is not fair at all to come suddenly with such DESTRUCTIVE posts.
>It is very easy to destruct things.
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>So, my conclusion is "Rick, do your job, and let them do their job. I hope you succeed, as well as them. This will be fantastic for the community."
>I will not be able to attend, but I am still hoping they will manage to make it happen.
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>The benefits for the participants go MUCH FURTHER than just getting the Whitepapers!
>I've built my best partnerships in Conferences, by having the oportunity to meet persons.
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>I've participated in the Brazilian Conferences, had the priviledge to be in SWFOX once, and recently with your friends from AtoutFox.
>Priceless experiences !!!
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>The relationships that you build in such environment has no price!!!

Great post!