Masfoxprousersgroup
De MasFoxPro Wiki
To all FoxPro users group worldwide
This is a message to inform you of the MasFoxPro (MoreFoxPro) campaign and encourage you to support it.
We suppose your already know that Microsoft announced that there would be no Visual Foxpro version 10. You can find it at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952.aspx
This announcement lacks a convincing explanation or logical reason why Microsoft decided not to release a new version of Visual FoxPro.
This announcement has been a major blow to the FoxPro community. This is especially true for the medium and small application developers (the vast majority of developers in Visual FoxPro), that have many years of Visual FoxPro code. It is not practical or cost effective to attempt to move these applications to Microsoft's recommended development environment (.NET). The community must rethink its future development platform.
This campaign was created as an idea that originated in the Spanish FoxPro Microsoft newsgroups. Mas stands for more in Spanish. PortalFox and the MVPs that manage PortalFox, as a part of the community, decided to offer a way (hosting and support) to let the community to express itself and promote this campaign.
March, 22th of 2007, a Wiki called MasFoxPro was created at:
Remember that this campaign does not only focus on the collecting signatures. There are more actions (even more important than the signatures), More information regarding this campaign can be found at:
http://www.masfoxpro.com/Masfoxpro
We encourage you, your user group or web page support this campaign. Long term persistence could possibly give us an opportunity for some kind of success. Anyhow this your opportunity to FoxPro and the FoxPro Community. It is a worldwide campaign, not limited to any specific user groups.
If your users group or web page supports this campaign, you can add your URL and data here:
http://www.masfoxpro.com/Sponsors
If you want to link us (please do it), The official link is http://www.masfoxpro.com and the logo located at:
http://www.masfoxpro.com/images/logo.gif
Alternative logo:
http://www.masfoxpro.com/images/morefoxpro.gif
Also we ask you to pass this email to other users, user groups, developers, press, blogs, etc. Is quite relevant that this campaign have world wide participation.
Thanks for your attention.
PD: PortalFox is the main Spanish talking developers portal in Visual FoxPro. With over than 28,000 registered users worldwide, is affectionately known as "El Portal del Pueblo" (People's Portal). More info regarding PortalFox is available at:
http://www.masfoxpro.com/PortalFox
For more info regarding the MasFoxPro campaign go to his website (http://www.masfoxpro.com) or contact with managers@masfoxpro.com
