Cocoaheads St Louis Talks - Call for speakers

[Fred Priese]

Hey all,

I am planning a series of monthly evening talks for CH St Louis to be hosted by my employer. I'd like to kick it all off with an intro to Mac/iOS dev using Xcode 4. I'd like to follow that with a talk on Obj-C and Cocoa/CocoaTouch before we get to an intro to memory management. Jay Tuley has volunteered for the latter talk.

If you would like to volunteer, or suggest someone, please let me know. My employer, Announce Media, is located on the U City Loop and in downtown Mountain View, California on Castro Street. The speaker can present via video conference from Mountain View, and in fact we might have attendees there as well.

The goal of these talks is to jump start a newb's knowledge in Obj-C and Cocoa dev in the Mac OS X dev tools. I am amenable to more then once monthly meetings and to additional topics. I have a few more advanced topics I am interested in, but these first three seem pretty basic and I am pretty rusty. :-)

So let me know if you are interested in presenting either of these two or know someone I can reach out to in St Louis or Silicon Valley. And the sooner we find the first speaker, the sooner we get started! :-)

Thanks,
Fred
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[Heath Borders]

STL Mobile Dev has had a few iOS talks over the past year. Perhaps we
can work together to pool iOS knowledge in one place.

-Heath Borders
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Twitter: heathborders
http://heath-tech.blogspot.com

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[L. Brandt]

Hi Fred, 

I know you gave this talk a while ago and I was wondering if you still had a copy of your presentation.... I am joining the CH group and am hoping to catch up on development. Thanks.

LBrandt

[Gary Sheldon]

Is the intent, scope or intended audience different from the West
County CocoaHeads group just formed in June? If not, seems like
joining forces might be mutually beneficial.

Home page for the group:

http://onelinecodechange.wordpress.com/

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[James B. Tuley]

I don't think so judging from their website, I think format-wise fred
has been trying to get regular presentation meetings started so a
merger in that respect would make a lot of sense. But I don't know
anything about that group except what you just posted, and they know
about cocoaheads, so why didn't they contact us? I'm trying to get on
their mailing list and I will also try contacting them and well see,
it's a little confusing having two groups (we we are farther longitude
west as well) and i think the groups are all overlap, at least to me.
Unfortunately thursdays are a bad night for me so i won't get to see
what is up in person.

-Jay

On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:43 PM, Gary Sheldon wrote:

> Is the intent, scope or intended audience different from the West
> County CocoaHeads group just formed in June? If not, seems like
> joining forces might be mutually beneficial.
>
> Home page for the group:
>
> http://onelinecodechange.wordpress.com/
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>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> I know you gave this talk a while ago and I was wondering if you
>> still had a
>> copy of your presentation.... I am joining the CH group and am
>> hoping to
>> catch up on development. Thanks.
>>
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[Gary Sheldon]

I don't know the answer to the question about contacting the St. Louis
Cocoaheads, but it might have something to do with the fact that the
home page for the group accessed directly or by the link from the
International Cocoahead site provides the following information for
the next meeting in St. Louis:

MEETING INFORMATION

Saturday, December 19, 2009 14:00 at Kaldi's Coffeehouse,
120 S Kirkwood Rd, St

Louis, MO

There is a link to another site for more "current information":

Check for the most up to date and correct meeting information at:

Gateway Area Mac Programmers Website -- GAMProg.org

The information about the meeting displayed on that site is identical
for the usual
monthly meeting on the last Saturday from January through December 2011:

Cocoaheads STL Meeting
When
Sat, December 24, 2011, 2pm – 4pm
Where
Kaldi's Coffeehouse loc: 120 S Kirkwood Rd St Louis MO. (map)
Description
Meeting Topics:
TBA
more details» copy to my calendar

[Jay Tuley]

Gary, (and anyone else can chime in) i'd like to know if there is a technical difficult with the gamprog.org site, which there may be an issue with the google widgets, because when i go to our site i see first?

Announcements:

CocoaHeads St. Louis: Saturday 23 July 2011 from 2-4pm at Kaldi's in Kirkwood *1 Week Early*

The next CocoaHeads: Saturday July 23rd, 2011 02:00 PM CST *1 Week
Early*
at Kaldi's Coffeehouse, 120 S Kirkwood Rd, St Louis, MO.
Suggested Discussion Topics:
* Lion!!
* Arc!
* Any topics you want to bring!

Check out this Meetup with St Louis CocoaHeads [link]
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[Fred Priese]

Hey Gary,

Sorry for the late reply.

The intents are largely the same, but the "West" St Louis group is more focused on presentations than we are. I had started to organize talks, but got busy and could not follow through. My fault, but fortunately, the other group is there for presentations.

I put "West" in quotes because we actually meet just south of them in Kirkwood. (The talks were in U City to the east a little bit.)

Also, WStL is iOS specific. If you are into the Mac, then we might be a better fit. However, we are very informal and it is more of a monthly get together to discuss topics in the Mac/iOS technical universe.

You can do both, by all means. They meet on Thursdays, we meet on Saturdays and if I ever put together more talks, they'll be on Wednesdays in U City.

Hope that helps clear up any questions. I think we are fortunate to have both groups. It is unfortunate we couldn't merge the two, but really, this way we make sure the Mac isn't forgotten! :-P

f-

On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:43 PM, Gary Sheldon wrote:

[James B. Tuley]

I'd like to keep further talk about two groups and scopes to off the
list -- just while we figure stuff out.

Thanks, Jay