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A New Beginning

Protose | September 20, 2004 | 0 comments

Just under five years ago as undergraduate software engineering students attending Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) we started CUSEC the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference. We did not start the conference because it was our life long dream to organize a conference but we started it because of a need we had as software engineering students in a brand new field of engineering that was not filled.

We brought 100s of passionate software engineering students from across Canada together once a year to learn from the biggest names in software engineering, people we read about in our textbooks but never thought we would ever get the opportunity to learn directly from let alone socialize with. The likes of: Dr. Philipe Krutchten, Dr. David Parnas, Kent Beck, Hal Helms, Craig Larman, Dr. Morven Gentleman, Dr. Timothy Lethbridge and Dr. Peter Grogono to name just a few.

We loved the conference so much that after it was over we got down because we knew that it would be a whole year before we would get the opportunity to see the new friends we made and share what we have been learning at our respective schools again. For those who where in there fourth year of there undergraduate degree and about to graduate and enter the real world with dreams of changing the way people develop software it was even harder. We knew that once we left university there would not be any more working along side others as passionate as you about software engineering and there was no more CUSEC. You where one person amongst hundreds of computer scientists.

For some of the organizers of CUSEC who graduated from university it was not long before we could not handle not being amongst fellow software engineers on a daily basis. We needed a place where we could share and discuss articles on software engineering with our peers , we needed a place to ask questions about problems we where encountering in our daily work related to software engineering so to get feedback from our peers.

So lets define the problem as engineers.

Problem:

• Graduates of software engineering and people interested in software engineering do not have a place that they can go to that will help them continuously increase their knowledge of software engineering;


• They don't have a place to discuss the latest articles they have read on software engineering;


• They don't have a place where they can go and ask questions on software engineering and get answers from their peers;


• And most importantly, they don‚Äôt have a lot of time in there already very demanding days.

Solution:

• Protose

Ok, so I skipped a couple of steps, I went from high level requirements all the way to the solution. But you see, this is the perfect example of us respecting the amount of time you have in a day.

Protose, bookmark our website, be proud as a software engineer and even make Protose your home page, we will be updating the website with new articles on a daily basis and constantly evolve based on your feedback.

Welcome my friends to a place you can now call home all year round!

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