[RandomOpinion]

There's the ACM and IEEE already though?

[tptacek]

The ACM is an academic association. The IEEE should be more important professionally than it is; one problem with the IEEE is that you have to have a related bachelors degree to join.

Developers should start a new organization that represents the interests of employees of the technology industry.

[pvg]

Those things mostly exist to collect membership fees and run conferences.