I’ve got a new ambition: a Tucson software development/engineering symposium. Right now, I’m thinking September or October.

I’ve got some good role model events:

No Fluff Just Stuff and Philly’s Emerging Tech.

So, here’s a few of my thoughts.

• a single day event
• run on Saturday
• start at 8:30
• sessions end at 3
• central to town (u of a?)
• rest of day social/hack sessions
• 15-18, 30 minutes sessions in two tracks
• cover “hot” topics (rails/grails, agile, tdd/bdd, open sourcing, ruby/python, robotics)
• get sponsorship from raytheon, intuit, ventana, arizona center for innovation, ibm, saic, etc.
• limit attendee seats to 200
• cost at ~$100
• all proceeds go to building a computer science/software engineering summer camp for kids.

Any feedback?