>Hi Tamar,
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>I was waiting to have some more work before asking for your help as to of some other people, as you will see in this (huge) message, so I ask you, please to consider reading it till the end. The messages you exchanged with Alonso made me rush into that.
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>Many great people, as you are be able to see at http://www.black-beans.com.br/foxprohistory/acknowledgements.htm, if you wish, kindly joined me from the very beginning of this task, that I must quote "don't belong to me". I'm a mere guy, that knows almost nothing about the history of FoxPro, and haven't had the great happyness to witness facts or to know in person even one of those fantastic people that made that history, so I offered my best efforts and time to compile information, and to let our community of FoxPro developers to have another source of information. Nothing more than that. The vast majority, I risk to say, didn't have the same opportunity (and happyness) I hadn't, too.
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>Also, as most people who knows me from here and elsewhere knows, I'm not a VFP expert, far from that, but have been getting help from our highly skilled fellow developers, that I don't get tired to thank. But I never had a chance to give my share of contribution, and that ashamed me a lot.
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>First I setup and started to run a FoxPro resources site in Brazil to help my fellow citizens (I can better explain myself in portuguese) and in oct, 10, Black Beans came alive. I had to learn a lot to do it (everything was new to me), and all work you may see there was done by my own hands. That's not much, and looks primitive, I know, but I was starting to pay back what I got.
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>Next, after learning to search around, making some HTML pages, and setup and run a web site at my ISP, I got encouraged and dared to fly a bit higher: to pay my share for our worldwide community, and started to bother many people (that reading this message will better understand what I have been trying to do) giving ideas to be implemented, some stupid ones, now I can see, other perhaps good, but didn't deserve attention, so I had the idea to write the history of FoxPro. That's a huge task to be done, even by a person that witnessed it, that, unfortunatelly, is not my case. Also, I'm not a known person in our community, and was very afraid to get no help, by people not joining me in this task, and it would fall in the same stupid ideas trashcan.
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>But for my surprise and joy, help and support came from everywhere, and I got engaged, deep to the bones, to fullfil this collective dream. Of course, you, much better than I, know that's not enough, to accomplish a task like this. People encouraged me, even more, giving me names, sources, contacts I should make etc. I haven't done many of those contacts yet. Why? What those great people would think when receiving an email message from a brazilian John Doe, asking for their time to give support to a work of... exactly what? To deserve their attention and keep the respect and confidence of those ones that joined me from the beginning I had to show work.
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>That's exactly what I'm trying to do, I can't disappoint those that trusted (who knows why) in my working capacity, that spent their precious time searching for information they could give me, helping me, that looked at Black Beans pages (where the writing is being hosted) to see if the information they supplyed me was there, to see what is new up there, and to see if I still deserve their respect, help and support.
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>I understand that you are a very busy and proeminent person in our community and have to take great care when letting people to copy parts of the excellent work you've being doing for the last many years. That's why I hadn't asked explicitly your help, yet.
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>I'm not doing a work intending to have any kind of profit, self promotion, or have any commercial concerns on it. That couldn't be different for many many reasons. I'm counting on the trust of many people that are letting me reference whole documents and articles they wrote and have copyrights over them. They joined because they understood this work owns to nobody in special, it owns to all of us, and they wanted to work in a collaborative way to our community.
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>Sorry, Tamar, I'm taking more of your time than I should, but if I could would say much more.
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>What is the purpose of this message? To show to you and to anyone that reads this it, what this work is about, it is about collaboration and friendship above all.
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>Why I'm saying this to you? Because this is my own way to say, please Tamar, would you consider joining us and helping us to accomplish this work?
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>Thanks for your time,
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>Fernando

Fernando,

Very nicely put.

Renoir