FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award

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Created in 2001 by Microsoft, the FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who've made phenomenal contributions to the Visual FoxPro community.

Previous award recipients wish to continue the award and have created a committee to select a recipient for 2010. The committee consists of these recipients, Alan Griver (yag) of Microsoft, and one person from the FoxPro community. If you wish to be considered for inclusion on the committee, please email Doug Hennig (dhennig@stonefield.com) by April 30, 2010. The existing committee will select the community member and announce their selection in early May. The committee will then issue a call for nominations for the 2010 recipient and will make their selection from the nominees.

Recipient in 2007: Rainer Becker

Leader German FoxPro user group, short DFPUG, since 1993
Publisher Fox Rock X Magazine since 2008
Publisher Foxx Professional Magazine
Editor Fox Talk ( Dec 2005 - March 2006 )
Runs interactive VFP Forum ( forum.dfpug.de )
Runs VFP document portal ( portal.dfpug.de ), see Deutschsprachige Foxpro User Group Portal
Organizer Devcon Germany since 1994
Microsoft MVP since 1997
Visual FoxPro reseller
Visual Extend VFP Framework
Subcontractor for Microsoft Resource Localization Toolkit
Free localized user interface for VFP8 and VFP9
Seller of Visual FoxPro books in German in cooperation with Hentzenwerke Publishing

Recipient in 2007: Tamar Granor

Spoken at every DevCon since 1993
Spoken at dozens of other conferences and user groups all over North America and Europe on a wide variety of topics
Co-author of most popular VFP book ever, "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro" from Hentzenwerke Publishing
Co-author of the "Bible" for Office automation, "Microsoft Office Automation with VFP"
Co-author of "What's New in VFP" series
Author of several other books including "Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL"
Long-time Technical Editor of FoxPro Advisor
159 articles in Advisor
Long-time co-author of Advisor Answers column (357 answers)
Fifteen-time MVP award winner and one of first ever MVPs
One of the earliest members of CompuServe Fox Forum

Recipient in 2006: Doug Hennig

Doug Hennig received this award from Ken Levy at the conclusion of the Keynote presentation at Southwest Fox 2006 on 19 October 2006.

Author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT)
Author of the award-winning Stonefield Query
Author of the Member Data Editor, Anchor Editor, New Property/Method Dialog, and Cursor Adapter and Data Environment builders that come with VFP
Author of the My and Upsizing Wizard tools in Sedna
Co-author of the "What's New in Visual FoxPro" series and "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0"
Technical editor of "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0" and "The Fundamentals"
Wrote over 100 articles in over 10 years with Fox Talk
Spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world since 1994
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996
One of the administrators of the VFPX community initiative ( http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View/aspx?ProjectName=VFPX ), and project manager of several VFPX projects

Recipient in 2002: Rick Strahl.

Rick's been authoring top-notch articles since 1994, generating at least 50 articles in FPA, Foxtalk, and CODE.
Over 30 Whitepapers on his website at http://west-wind.com, many of them seminal.
Creator of the Web Connection framework, which made FoxPro an instant player for applications on the Web and is used by thousands of VFP developers. A Google search on WC.DLL returns 114,000 hits, despite the fact that this catches only a fraction of the sites that use Web Connection because they use script maps.
Creator of wwStore, an extensible e-commerce framework for VFP.
Creator of wwThreads, this community's most widely implemented message board.
Creator of wwHelp, which has revolutionized how many of us document our applications.
Creator of Fox Central, our community locus.
Creator of many other Internet and XML tools.
Profound impact on the current state of VFP through years of interaction with the Fox team.
His name is associated among the first citations connecting VFP with the following technologies: Internet, XML, SOAP, COM, ISAPI, IIS, Help, MTS, MSMQ, e-commerce and online payments, Adobe Acrobat, and .NET
He's among the first (and so far only) respected authors who are publicly exposing and demonstrating, in a constructive manner, what's NOT right with .NET and VS.NET.

Recipient in 2001: Whil Hentzen.

Author, editor, and/or publisher of many VFP books through his company, Hentzenwerke
Speaker at VFP conferences world wide
Creator of The Ultimate FoxPro Reference � TUFPR (two-fer)
Editor Pros Talk Visual FoxPro series
Editor of Fox Talk for many years
Early adopter of GenScrn X
Contributor to VFP certification exams
Tireless FoxPro promoter
Articles for forming and managing FoxPro user groups
Editorial columns for Information System Consultant (ISC)
Former, future marathon runner, competitive while a big contributor
Master of the "bonus sessions" at FoxPro conferences
�VFP 7.0 Only� session at Whil Fest 2001 to promote upgrades
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual FoxPro

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