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January Newsletter

Protose | January 31, 2005 | 0 comments

We sent out our first official newsletter today. The first one is a little unusual because it primarily covers CUSEC but in the future we will be sharing the space equally between CUSEC and Protose.org material. If you haven’t signed up to our newsletter yet sign up now.

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PROTOSE.ORG/CUSEC Monthly Newsletter Monday, January 31st, 2005

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Table of Contents

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1. What is Protose.org?
2. Thank You for CUSEC 2005
3. Comments and Suggestions for CUSEC
4. Presentation Archives and Pictures
5. CUSEC 2006 and 2007
6. Start Considering Being a Head Delegate
7. RSS Feeds to Protose.org
8. XP Day Toronto
9. Please Forward Newsletter to Friends

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The Newsletter

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1. What is Protose.org?

Protose.org – Home of Software Engineers, was created and is being maintained by the same people that founded and have been involved with CUSEC over the years.

We call protose.org the place where we all go between the yearly conferences to keep up to date with everything software engineering because one year just seems so long.

On protose.org you will find articles that are of importance to software engineers including links to articles that have been published by other people.

It has only been around for a couple months so it is in it’s infancy. We are presently looking for contributors. If you want to help by being an editor and or contributor to protose.org email me at john.kopanas [at] protose [dot] org.

2. Thank You for CUSEC 2005

I really want to thank the organizers from Carleton University for putting on a good show. I know it was a hard year for them but they pulled it off. They made CUSEC officially a national conference. Thanks again! You should be proud of yourselves.

3. Comments and Suggestions for CUSEC

We have been getting some good feedback from CUSEC 2005 but we are always looking for more feedback. Hear what others have had to say about CUSEC 2005 and add your own comments, please remember each one of your voices helps determine the direction, content and events around the conference:

http://www.protose.org/archives/2005/01/cusec2006and1.php

4. Presentation Archives and Pictures

The presentation archives for CUSEC 2005 is up. Not all presentations have been submitted but the large majority are up so far. As we get more we will post them.

I have gotten a lot of pictures from attendees of CUSEC so far but I am looking for more. I have created an FTP site where you can upload the pictures you took. Here is the info:

FTP Address: barclay.textdrive.com username: cusec password: #upload!

If you prefer to email them to me. Email me them at john.kopanas [at] protose [dot] org.

I will put online all the pictures I have by Monday night so please get all your pictures in by Sunday. There are some great pictures that bring back some good memories :-).

If the information for FTPing does not work email me at john.kopanas [at] protose [dot] org.

Please make sure you send me original full size images if you can.

5. CUSEC 2006 and 2007

We announced at CUSEC 2005 that CUSEC 2006 will be taking place in Montreal and CUSEC 2007 will be taking place in either Toronto or Waterloo.

We are taking a method developed by Poly and Concordia for CUSEC 2004 to the next level. Anyone passionate and crazy enough who wants to organize CUSEC, not matter what school they are going to, can be involved in the organization. Presently the organization committee for CUSEC 2006 consists of students from McMaster and Concordia but we hope to bring on students from each university that has historically attended the conference.

(We are testing this method this year, if it works CUSEC 2007 will be held in Toronto if not it will tentatively be held by the University of Waterloo, either way Waterloo will be involved in CUSEC 2007. My friends at Waterloo, please don’t worry.)

6. Start Considering Becoming a Head Delegate

You coming back to CUSEC 2006 that is being held in my beautiful hometown of Montreal? Why don’t you consider becoming a head delegate for your school?

It is a prestigious position but it does take effort. You will be responsible for:

• harassing your faculty/department/engsoc/clubs to pay part of your delegations trip
• promoting and raising awareness of CUSEC at your school
• being our eyes and ears at your school and your schools voice within CUSEC
• taking care of the logistics of getting from your school to the conference
• keeping everyone informed at your school about CUSEC

You like getting your hands dirty and getting involved get into contact with us about being a head delegate. I even hear that if you bring more then 10 people you might get your ticket paid for :-).

(note: please don’t take this position lightly… it does take effort and time but we will be there to guide you.)

7. RSS Feeds to Protose.org

You too busy to refresh protose.org every hour but you want to be notified when new articles on software engineering or new information on CUSEC because available.

If you are already an RSS Feed junky subscribe to our RSS Feeds:

RSS 1.0: http://www.protose.org/feeds/index.rdf RSS 2.0: http://www.protose.org/feeds/index.xml Atom: http://www.protose.org/_feeds/atom.xml

Don’t know what RSS Feeds are? Here are some good resources on RSS compiled by Mark Pavlidis.

A good technical description: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

A historic timeline: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssVersionHistory

Tutorials: “RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters� http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

“RSS Workshop� http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html

Aggregators: Recommended aggregators from Aaron Swartz http://blogspace.com/rss/readers

8. XP Day Toronto

Did you enjoy JB Rainsberger’s and Allistair Cockburn’s talks at CUSEC 2005? Are you really interested in Agile Methodologies like eXtrememe Programming? If so, JB Rainsberger is organizing a one day conference in Toronto called XP Day Toronto and he is extending a hard to ignore promotion for his friends from CUSEC that he is calling the “Starving Student Discount”. Here it is:

If you stay at the hotel at the conference rate ($129 plus taxes), registration is $119. If staying dual occupancy, each person sharing the room gets into the conference for $119. That’s 60% off the regular price of $299 and below cost! Call it a starving student discount.

For more information on XP Day Toronto check out the conference website at: http://www.xpday.info

Please note that the hotel rate special ended yesterday but if some of you decide quick enough that you want to go I am confident he will be able to give you the same discount.

(I am driving down from Montreal and I might have two places in my car if you want. Check with me.)

9. Please Forward Newsletter to Friends

If you liked CUSEC and you are impressed with Protose.org please try to spread the word. The more people involved in both CUSEC and Protose.org the better they become for you!

If you have any feedback on this newsletter, CUSEC or Protose please don’t hesitate to contact me at john.kopanas [at] protose [dot] org and I will forward your comments to the rest of the gang and make sure that you get a quick response as well.

Your Friend,

John Kopanas

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