Tamar:

Just the voice I wanted to hear from from a historical perspective. As far as the Advisor DevCon's go, and now the Connections DevCon, do they not realize there are resort areas in the northern part of the US? Selecting southern cities in the summer? I would like to go to San Diego, Phoenix, Orlando in December. Send me to Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Boston in the summer. Do you really want to paln a major event in Miami in September at the height of the hurricane and summer seasons? Remember our summer usually lasts from April to October and Miami does not really experience winter. :)

At the very least, explore other States.

>I think you can safely assume that this announcement means that the contracts have been signed. That's how things like this typically work.
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>Having listened to a lot of these discussions over the years and being fairly ambivalent on the subject myself, I can say that I've heard both sides of the argument from members of the FoxPro community. Some people really welcome the opportunity to go to a place they wouldn't ordinarily get to visit, while others would prefer to spend less and find that a conference in a resort city is a hard sell to the boss.
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>To some extent, we're very fortunate in that we have both options available to us. The major conferences tend to be held in resort locations, while we do have the regional conferences that still offer top-level speakers, but at significantly reduced cost. The number of conference opportunities available compared to the size of the VFP community is actually pretty amazing.
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>Tamar