Recap: 4th Annual Bonanza

As usual, a great year end blowout.  If you missed it, you’ll just have to wait until next year!  But I’ll share our 2009 predictions here.

First, thanks are due:

Jason Fiske, our regional FileMaker sales rep, and Matt O’Dell, our regional FM SME, for providing the excellent food;

Andy Gaunt, for popping in via videoshare and offering us season’s greetings and a preview of the year to come for FMPug;

And especially to all the vendors who generously offered software for the giveaways!

 

360Works

Goya Pty

myFMButler

SolutionMakers

Dynamic Business Solutions

WorldSync

FMWebSchool

New Millenium

and 

Troi Automatisering

Second, I want thank Tony Green for taking photos of the night! He’s shared them for us here:

2008 Bonanza Photos

Our predictions (names withheld to protect the innocent):

Bento 3 will integrate with mySQL.
A color kindle will be introduced, be too expensive and die. 
To prove FM is a database for the everyman, Bruce Springsteen will be the new spokesman.
Thanks to a tanking economy, small business will grow in Q3 & Q4.  FileMaker will thrive.
Flexible flatscreens are in stores.
Bento will be used by high school students.
FileMaker will announce a SaaS or subscription model.
American Express will go bankrupt.

And…that’s all I have to say about that.

I hope you’ll join us January 27, 2009, when Ben Waldie will wow us with some AppleScript and Automater integration techniques.  See you soon!

Colin Keefe

PFDG Coordinator

4th Annual PFDG Year End Bonanza – Tuesday, Dec 16th!

Greetings FileMaker Enthusiasts,

Our next Philadelphia FileMaker Developer Group meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, December 16th 2008 at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the IT Solutions Fort Washington Office.

414 Commerce Dr., Suite 150, Fort Washington, PA 19034
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This is our Fourth Annual Year End Bonanza!

Please RSVP here if you are planning to attend this meeting:
http://www.fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=437

Food will be catered, and we’ll be continuing our tradition of reviewing the 2008 predictions we made last year, and making predictions for the coming year.  There are no formal presentations, but feel free to break out laptops while you nosh.  Talking about FileMaker is, of course, inevitable – but not required!  Mainly this is an opportunity to wrap up the year with some good food, networking, gossip and giveaways.  If you’ve never been to one of our meetings, this is a good time to start!  We’d love to have you.

The vendors I’ve contacted for giveaways have been very generous this year, and this is what we have in the offing:

 

                •             1 Workgroup License of SuperContainer (360Works)
                •             1 Copy of AdminAnywhere (360Works) 
                •             1 Copy of BaseElements      (Goya Pty)
                •             1 Copy of Clip Manager      (myFMButler)
                •             1 Copy of DoSQL      (myFMButler)
                •             1 Copy of 123Sync      (SolutionMakers)
                •             2 Copies of FM Meters      (Dynamic Business Solutions)
                •             1 Single User Copy of FMDataGuard      (WorldSync)
                •             1 Copy of FMTouch      (FMWebSchool)
                •             1 Copy of FMStudio      (FMWebSchool)
                •             1 Single User/Single Platform Copy of MediaManager (promo, non xferable)      (NMCI)
                •             1 5-User/Single Platform Copy of SecureFM      (NMCI)
                •             1 Single User/Single Platform Copy of FMRobot (NMCI)
                •             1 Single User license of Troi File Plug-in (Troi)
                •             1 Single User license of Troi Activator Plug-in (Troi)

In the grand holiday tradition of “I like your present better than mine”, exchanging prizes with each other is, as usual, encouraged.  Not that I could stop you.

Thanks to all the vendors who’ve promised promotional copies!  We’ll be raffling these off over the course of the evening.  I’ll also have a table out with brochures and discounts from the vendors, and will be happy to talk through what all of this stuff does, if you end up scratching your head about what the heck it is you just won.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Best,

Colin

Chapter Coordinator

Year End Bonanza Reminder

Just a quick note to put this in your calendar – a more official announce will come as the date gets closer.

We’ll be hosting our annual Year End Bonanza meeting on December 16th at 6 PM.  Food will be catered, and we’ll do our usual 2008 predictions review, and take predictions for 2009.  Mainly this is an opportunity to wrap up the year with some food, networking and giveaways.

Oh yes, the giveaways – so far this is what I’ve lined up; more to come:

• 1 Workgroup License of SuperContainer (360Works)
• 1 Copy of AdminAnywhere (360Works) 
• 1 Copy of BaseElements      (Goya Pty)
• 1 Copy of Clip Manager      (myFMButler)
• 1 Copy of DoSQL      (myFMButler)
• 1 Copy of 123Sync      (SolutionMakers)
• 2 Copies of FM Meters      (Dynamic Business Solutions)
• 1 Single User Copy of FMDataGuard      (WorldSync)
• 1 Copy of FMTouch      (FMWebSchool)
• 1 Copy of FMStudio      (FMWebSchool)
• 1 Single User/Single Platform Copy of MediaManager (promo, non xferable)      (NMCI)
• 1 5-User/Single Platform Copy of SecureFM      (NMCI)
• 1 Single User/Single Platform Copy of FMRobot (NMCI)
• 1 Single User license of Troi File Plug-in (Troi)
• 1 Single User license of Troi Activator Plug-in (Troi)

Thanks to all the vendors who’ve promised promotional copies!  We’ll be raffling these off; you don’t need to be a FMPUG member to be eligible for these.

That’s all for now – see you at Jerry’s presentation this Tuesday!

Colin