Haven’t heard from us from a while? That’s because we’re hard at work to bring you CUSEC 2010. Once again, it’s taking place in Montreal in January, conveniently at a time before school gets too busy.
But we need your help: we need a logo. Who better than to shape the look of CUSEC than the people who will have to stare at it the most: you.
What you need to capture
Our theme for next year is CUSEC 2010: GOTO 10. It’s a reboot theme where we’ll go back to the basics of software engineering and examine if concepts from the past can help us design for the future.
As trends in software come and go, we find ourselves returning to the concepts from the past. As the popularity of cloud computing, dynamic languages and embedded devices continues to grow, we’re experiencing a re-emergence of the same themes and constraints that were the norm not so long ago. It is in this context that CUSEC 2010 seeks to explore what solutions from the past can be used for the challenges of tomorrow
At minimum, the logo should have:
- “CUSEC 2010”
- “GOTO 10”
- some sort of symbol that you think represents the theme.
Some ideas you might want to play around with:
- BASIC code
- retro fonts
- neon colours
Here are a few examples from previous years:
We like the layout of the CUSEC2009 logo where the symbol sits next to the name and theme which are stacked on top of each other.
A few requirements
What’s a software engineering contest without a few requirements. Here are ours:
- Should incorporate the text elements mentioned above
- Should look good on a t-shirt
- Can’t rely on many colours. Ideally, this should be able to print in black and white
- Should still look distinctive at smaller sizes
What’s in it for you?
Why should you give up your precious time to help us out? Well
- Free admission to CUSEC2010
This alone should motivate you to give it a shot. But wait — there’s more:
- Invitation to one of the speaker dinners
- Copies of our posters and an extra t-shirt or two
How to submit
Shoot us an email at info@cusec.net with your image file by Sunday, July 5th before midnight. Please send us your submission in an easy to consume format (JPEG, PNG, etc) but we’ll ask for a vector version later.
Looking forward to seeing your submission!
As always, looking forward to CUSEC. Keep it up, I know you’ll all do a great job, once again.
Yeah! CUSEC!
just ramblin’ here…
CUSEC 2010, available in many, many colors!
10 GOTO 10
GOSUB considered Harmful
Changing Strings$ in lemonade is not hacking
Making D&D Maps with high-ascii characters is a good start, padawan (don’t forget to change the ribbon and make sure you have enough of tractor-feed paper for your dot-matrix)
etc.
Hey CUSEC people! Will you upload the videos of the 2009 edition soon? Thanks!
when is the deadline for submission…is it 5th july 2010….
Kiran, the deadline for submissions was in 2009.