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Serious journalism like this that covers the important issues is something we need more of in today’s society.

So, for three years I’ve been attending a conference in Montreal called CUSEC, a ridiculously long acronym that I’ll spare everybody on. Let’s just pretend it’s a software conference mainly targeted at university students— and it’s organized by them too. It’s actually been a huge success story, having a conference organized by a bunch of engineers who you would think would otherwise rather just drink and play WoW, and getting great results out of it, inviting notable speakers, having more and more delegates turn out, etc.. It’s also been extremely awesome that these very notable speakers actually enjoyed their talks and experience at CUSEC— So much so that every single one with a blog wrote about it after the conference– and said something good.

This year we were lucky enough to have some great speakers, though someone who may stand out to people reading this would be Jeff Atwood of codinghorror.com fame. Not only did he give a really great talk, but he also was nice enough to give CUSEC a nice little plug on his website a few days ago, which will probably get the conference a little bit of recognition with his 75,000 RSS subscribers and 100,000+ a day readers (his words, not mine, check his presentation for more crazy facts).

It’s great to see that CUSEC is actually getting good press from the speakers and that they actually find the experience to be unique. If only we could invite these guys and gals back to speak every year…

Update 1 - Jan 20th 08: You can find photos from the event if you look up “cusec2008″ in Flickr.