>>It doesn't matter that only 30 people might actually attend. Those who don't attend, the other 9,970 or so, will have no idea of that fact and likely will assume that as many people attended VFP session(s) as they saw in the session they were in concurrently.
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>A conference is a business like any other, and having the costs to have a session/topic/speaker where there are no (or just a few) attendees is not worth the cost.

I guess that my point was not clear.

This was talking about VFP 'representation' at non-VFP conferences where VFP has at least indirect relevance. Not funding yet another VFP conference.

The cost of having a session or two at the most, even if they went totally empty, might well be very worthwhile only for the additional exposure to a very wide audience of non-VFP folks, simply to let them see for themselves that VFP is still a MS product under continued development. Especially if a frrebie box or two were offered as prizes of some kind.
Looks like cheap yet effective promotion to me.

Also, Nick N. related a story about some managers in his city tewnding to drop VFP because they saw not a mention of it at some (TechEd, I think) conference. Makes my point precisely, I think!

This just to add ideas to your arsenal. You're getting it done and that truly is appreciated.

Jim