Hiya Ed ---

>Maintaining a repository of articles, URLs and the like is a good thing. Creating 'press releases' to me sounds like we're going to spam anyone whose name we glom every time someone says a kind word about VFP. If this is the case, I won't be involved, and please pull my name from the list of mail recipients now. I get enough junk email now as it is!
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I meant "press releases" metaphorically. These are the types of decisions and goals that require more than moi sitting on his soapbox.

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>Microsoft in theory is providing a mechanism to do this - the VFP exam for the MCSD. As to professionalism, does this mean that we have a strict code of professional behavior like ACM membership? Is a passing grade on the MCSD certification required of the membership? Or do we stand in front of the bridge keeper from MPATHG and 'answer me these questions three..."
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>Again, if this organization is going to guarentee the professionalism of VFP developers in general, count me out. If membership requires passing a serious certification exam that is widely accepted as a sound measure of the skill set needed to produce applications, and requires members to adhere to strict codes of conduct, that's OK, too. But I'm not likely to be a member, and if not paying my dues to the VFPDA results in the VFPDA stating that's I'm not a professional developer with adequate skills to develop VFP applications, we're going to have a problem.
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Did you see the "somehow" part? I guess what I mean is provide access to methodologies, modeling tools, et al....I don't mean a Gestapo mechanism, "So...you don't have your papers....ve have vays of shtopping you." More educational and not at all exclusionary.

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>I'm in a holding pattern until I see how things turn out.

So should everyone be until it's been thrashed out some more, eh?