Sorry for your bad news. One "old hand" said that he (and some of his friends) didn't attend because there was not a new release of FoxPro scheduled for this devcon. I suspect this may be a market-wide factor. We'll see at the next DevCon ...

>>One of the more encouraging signs at DevCon was the number of first
>>time
>>attendees. During the keynote speech, the first-timers were an
>>overwhelming majority of the audience.
>>
>>Tamar Granor put a different spin on this statistic when, during her
>>talk
>>"Using SQL-Select Effectively in VFP 5", she asked how many people
>>started
>>using FoxPro with version 5.0. Out of a perhaps 250 people, less than
>>10
>>people raised their hands! When she asked how many first-timers the
>>majority of the croud raised ther hand.
>
>I hate to put an omenous note on it, but this also means that the repeat
>Devcon attendees didn't show up. Could your statistic mean that there's
>an infusion of new blood, or does it just mean that the old blood has
>moved on?
>
>(Sorry I'm the negative one on this, I got laid off on Friday).