>>>>>George,
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>>>>>I'll go one step further and say that the UT should reconsider the decision about granting automatic membership to those who have done the most to help support it.
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>>>>Kevin, I think this would be a very good business decision. There are some members here that are truly awesome. I second your suggestion, fwiw.
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>>>Unless the PUTM funding comes from 80% of those guys. Then it would be a very bad decision.
>>>It can only be done to a small percentage of members.
>>>
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>>Hi Walter, that is stating the obvious :) The bell curve is probably in effect and the truly awesome members are on the extreme end of the curve helping the majority of us who are somewhere in the middle.
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>There are a lot of great members that contribute. And I've benefited from many of them. But one name keeps coming into my mind. Let me be the first to nominate Sergey Berezniker.

I'm scared that many (even MVPs) will leave the VFP boat for whatever reasons. The major one probably being that there are less and less jobs in VFP.

The good side to this is that Sergey seems to be a hard-core VFP developer.

Who know perhaps one day the VFP forum will be renamed to "Sergey's place" <vbg>