CUSEC: The Annual—2009

1. CUSEC 2009 Will Be The Best Conference For Software Engineers, Ever
2. Money For You
3. 2009 Speaker Lineup: Like the Power Rangers, Only Better In Every Way, And Less Annoying
4. If Yggdrasil Were Planted In El Dorado AND Atlantis, CUSEC’s Location Would Still Be Better
5. Registration Still Open!
6. Videos From CUSEC 2008
7. Stuff to Bring
8. Twitter

Greetings, Dear Friend Of CUSEC With An Email Address That Is In Our Possession Through Perfectly Legitimate Means. Please, read on for the hip happenings of CUSEC 2009!

CUSEC 2009 Will Be The Best Conference For Software Engineers, Ever

We’re software engineers. We’ve built and optimized a conference for software engineers. We’ve got interesting speakers, a positively superlative venue, and top-notch industry partners. If you’re already signed up, read on for titillating details. If you’re not signed up, there’s still time!

Money For You

Holy Flying Spaghetti, is CUSEC ever cheap! On Jan. 1, conference passes went up to $100, but we screwed it up, so you can still buy conference passes for $60 until Jan 16. Most conferences of this caliber cost TEN to FORTY times as much and this is the only part of this email I’m not exaggerating! If you don’t know what a Head Delegate is, you can register online!

OK, so you SHOULD be paying us at least $999.95 for this conference, and you’re only paying $60, so it’s like we’re giving you money! How is this possible?

Phenomenal industry partners. Like our Platinum Sponsor RIM. RIM supports better software engineering and SE education. Along with our Gold Sponsors IBM and Radialpoint and several other enlightened companies, they have stepped up to make CUSEC possible. Kudos and thanks!

Logos!

They have totally earned the legal right to be mentioned prominently in our newsletters. And we love them for it.

2009 Speaker Lineup: Like the Power Rangers, Only Better In Every Way, And Less Annoying

The Power Rangers: They’re Mighty. They Morph. They’re Multicoloured. Sometimes they band together to make giant robots. I don’t really know, I was never allowed to watch them as a kid. Anyway, our speakers are just like the Power Rangers, except without all the bad parts, like Encouraging Children to Violence or Having Annoying Theme Songs.

Keynote Speakers

1. Leah Culver (Founder, Pownce)
2. Francis Hwang (Writer, artist, software engineer)
3. Avi Bryant (Founder, DabbleDB; Creator, Seaside)
4. Dan Ingalls (Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems; Pioneer, Object-Orientied Programming)
5. Richard Stallman (Founder, GNU Project; Founder, Free Software Foundation)
6. Giles Bowkett (Evil Genius)

Academic Speakers

1. Jonathan Edwards (MIT)
2. Jörg Kienzle (McGill)
3. Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto)
4. Caitlin Kelleher (Washington University in St. Louis)

Corporate Speakers

1. Jói Sigurðsson (Google)
2. Joey deVilla (Microsoft)
3. Vince Silvestri (Evertz Microsystems)
4. Surprise!

Tutorials

1. Colin Smillie (Refresh Partners)
2. Mark Pavlidis (McMaster)
3. James Golick (GiraffeSoft)

If Yggdrasil Were Planted In El Dorado AND Atlantis, CUSEC’s Location Would Still Be Better

CUSEC 2009 will be held at the luxurious Omni Mont-Royal Hotel. Out of town delegates will stay at the wonderful Best Western Ville-Marie, directly across the street. It couldn’t be easier!

Registration Still Open!

A wise man once said,

Holy Flying Spaghetti, is CUSEC ever cheap! On Jan. 1, conference passes went up to $100, but we screwed it up, so you can still buy conference passes for $60 until Jan 16. Most conferences of this caliber cost TEN to FORTY times as much and this is the only part of this email I’m not exaggerating! If you don’t know what a Head Delegate is, you can register online!

And he was mostly right. Except, there are no other conferences of this caliber. That’s what “best” means, and CUSEC 2009 is the best conference for software engineers ever. Also, those expensive conferences would kill to be as much fun as CUSEC, and they’ve tried, how they’ve tried, but they’re not even close.

Never been to a conference before? No worry! CUSEC is a perfect first conference due to our relaxed yet energized intellectual atmosphere!

Revolutionary!

Videos From CUSEC 2008

Check out the CUSEC 2009 site. The blog includes videos from Zed Shaw, Jeffrey Ullman, Jon Udell and more.

Stuff to Bring

Bring

• Copies of your résumé for the career fair (Does YOUR email handle Unicode?) (Bring your resume!)
• Comfortable clothes for the conference
• Stylish clothes for Montreal-style evening activities
• Clothes for leisure and recreation. The hotel has a gym!
• Laptops for hacking and demos
• Cash money for food, snacks and tasty beverages.

Do Not Bring

• Black hole-generating particle accelerators. Ending the world is forbidden at CUSEC.

Twitter

CUSEC loves Twitter: Check out #cusec2009 when the conference rolls around!

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