[CUSEC] CUSEC 2008 Wrap Up

[Abdullah Salim]

Hello everyone,

CUSEC has come on gone for another year, and the response for 2008 has  
been amazing!  Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all our speakers,  
sponsors, delegates and organizers for making 2008 the best yet!

Thank you to our amazing presenters: Tim Bray, Dr. Marsha Chechik,  
Kate Hollenbach, Zed Shaw, Bruce Miner, Sylvain Carle, Michel Martin,  
Chris Collition, Dr. Peter Grogono, Dr. Jeffrey Ullman, Leila  
Boujnane, Paul Bloore, Jeff Bailey, Adrian Thurston, Dr. Ettore Merlo,  
Dr. Jeremy Cooperstock, Jon Udell and Jeff Atwood.

Thank you to our spectacular sponsors: Direct Energy, MANSEF, SAP,  
TELUS, Concordia Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Evertz,  
Autodesk, Radialpoint, IBM, Concordia Department of Computer Science  
and Software Engineering, Scout Design, Microsoft, 76design and  
Electronic Arts.

Thank you to our record number of delegates!  There is no CUSEC  
without you!

Finally, a big thank you to all the organizers.  Thank you for the  
countless hours that you have volunteered for CUSEC 2008!

We have already started seeing blog posts about CUSEC 2008 and photos  
being posted on flickr.  Just like last year, a best blog post and  
picture from flickr will be chosen and a free ticket to CUSEC 2009  
will be awarded.  If you blog about CUSEC 2008, make sure to shoot us  
an email at info at cusec.net with a link to the post.  Pictures can be  
posted on flickr with the tag 'cusec2008'.  There are already over 350  
pictures!  Winners will be announced in January 2009.

During the CUSEC 2008 closing remarks, the organizing committee was  
pleased to announce the chairs for CUSEC 2009!  Congratulations to  
Eitan 'Skrud' Levi from Concordia University and Linda Wang from the  
University of Waterloo.

Lastly, CUSEC is always looking for volunteers.  If you would like to  
volunteer in anyway, please send an email to info at cusec.net with your  
name and the position you are interested in.  Please note that you  
must be registered as a student at the time of application.  So, get  
those applications in, because preparation has already began for 2009.

Ideas for 2009 should be directed to info at cusec.net as well.

Thank you to everyone involved with CUSEC 2008 for an amazing year.   
Here is to 2009, bigger and better!



Abdullah Salim and Hugo Levasseur
Co-Chairs, CUSEC 2008
http://2008.cusec.net
http://blog.cusec.net
info [at] cusec [dot] net


CUSEC 2008 Flickr Tag - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cusec2008/



Sponsors:
http://www.mansef.com/
http://www.directenergy.com/
http://www.sap.com/
http://www.telus.com/
http://encs.concordia.ca/
http://www.evertz.com/
http://usa.autodesk.com/
http://www.avanade.com/

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