Campaigning to Arturia reps at upcoming events?

[StutzJr]

So a frequent comment I see on forums like this is that they are not officially read by company representatives, but that they are simply a "community help" forum only.
I also see frequent comments on this forum in the Beatstep Pro and the Microbrute sub forums referring to long overdue promised bug fixes and updates.  There are also many great new feature ideas and discussions about allowing access to the firmware code or a user API for modifying options that are not currently accessible in the MCC.  These requests appear to have received little if any official response.

So, I recently received an email from Arturia advising they are going to be attending a number of upcoming events to demonstrate their products, and also one would imagine - to engage with the community...  Being in Australia, I won't have the opportunity to attend any of these events, but the internet does provide us with this community forum...  So whether or not this forum is an official communication channel it can still be to our advantage...    If Arturia don't read this forum, they may not know of this proposed campaign to keep asking about updates on the beatstep pro and microbrute firmware bugs!  But if they do read the forum they might just take the opportunity to have a good answer to these questions before the events..

So my request is this - if you are able to make it along to any of these events, please don't forget to ask the Arturia representatives when the promised updates for the beatstep pro and microbrute will be ready?

SXSW Texas 6-9 March 2017 - https://www.sxsw.com/schedule/
Dancefair Utrecht Netherlands 4-5 March 2017 - http://www.dancefair.nl/en/
Musikmesse Frankfurt 5-8 April 2017 - http://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/willkommen.html
Superbooth Berlin 20-22 April 2017 - https://www.superbooth.com/en/

[megamarkd]

What is the event names and dates for Australia?

[StutzJr]

I don't know of any events in Australia - that's the point.  Even if there was I can't imagine any of the actual developers coming all the way out here..  I'm hoping maybe some people in this community might have an opportunity to raise these isses with Arturia directly at one of these upcoming PR events.  I'm sure they want to put the highlight on the new products, lets not let them forget the "old" ones..

[megamarkd]

Ahhhh, I misunderstood.  Damn it would be good if we got a real event out here.  I build tradeshow stands for a living and have the closest I've done is a broadcast oriented expo with people like Kramer exhibiting.  Got about 100ru of rack rails that were to be tossed out of that.  Still have half of it in the shed waiting for a cabinet to be built.