The 2008 Business of Software Conference is (hopefully) to be set in Boston, MA in the Fall of this year. I am hoping to attend, so I joined the mailing list to acquire a seat. What can you expect? I’m not sure as I have never attended, but I imagine there is going to be food served and opportunities to network with some of the most innovative and professional developers in the business. I also assume there will be many lectures given from very nerdy people about very nerdy topics such as: development, software, and business.

I’m excited.

Here’s the confirmed speaker list so far:

- Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek software, author of several books and the man behind the joelonsoftware blog
 - Eric Sink, founder of SourceGear, author of “Eric Sink on the Business of Software” and the person who coined the term “Micro ISV”
 - Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing and winner of last year’s Software Idol competition
 - Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system, now used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment
 - Paul Kenny is one of the UK’s top sales trainers, consultants and speakers. He has worked with many customers in three continents, including IBM, Perot Systems, The Guardian and tens of others.
 - Dharmesh Shah is a geek, serial entrepreneur, founder of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com

Links:
The 2008 Business of Software Conference web site
The Business of Software Blog
The Facebook Business of Software group