Presentation I prepared for the CocoaHeads Belgium Founding Meeting. Our goal was to start a CocoaHeads Chapter here in Belgium, and this meeting was organized in order to have a Brain Storm session about what we could do with CocoaHeads Belgium

1. CocoaHeads
Belgium
Founding
Meeting
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Tuesday 29 September 2009

2. Welcome ...
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Welcome our guests, thank them for their presence, thank IBBT for allowing us to use their
venue.

3. Hi! I’m Stefaan
Tuesday 29 September 2009

4. You can find me here :
www.devia.be
www.itutorpodcast.com
www.cocoaheads.be
www.twitter.com/StefaanLesage
www.linkedin.com/in/stefaanlesage
Stefaan_Lesage on Skype
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Tuesday 29 September 2009

5. I work for a company called
Software Development
& New Media Technologies
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Our own Company, Software Development (mostly Delphi on Windows, but we’re venturing
onto the Mac / iPhone as well)

6. Yes, I’m a Coding Monkey ...
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Software Developer for about 10 years now, mainly in Delphi, though the Mac and iPhone
platform is something which interests me.

7. CocoaHeads
Belgium
Why a Belgian CocoaHeads ?
What to expect from CocaHeads Belgium ?
Brainstorm Session
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Tuesday 29 September 2009
Topics we will be discussing today

8. CocoaHeads
Belgium
Why a Belgian CocoaHeads ?
What to expect from CocaHeads Belgium ?
Brainstorm Session
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Tuesday 29 September 2009
Why start a Belgian CocoaHeads ?

9. Why start CocoaHeads Belgium ?
• Quite a few Devs ...
• Many of you were
thinking about it ...
• Many of you wanted to
help out ...
• We didn’t have it yet ...
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We have some good Mac & iPhone Devs
When I asked about a Belgian CocoaHeads on Twitter, many of you replied you had been
thinking about starting one
When I actually put everything in motion, many of you wanted to help out.

10. Great Programmers
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Pretty sure we have some great programmers in the audience

11. Wonderful Designers
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Pretty sure we have some great programmers in the audience

12. Network of Knowledge
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Learn how use the tools / devices / technologies our user base is accustomed to ! It might
learn us how they use these devices to learn new things and thus allow us to reach them
faster !

13. If we can learn
from each other ...
We could all be
experts !
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Tuesday 29 September 2009
Learn how use the tools / devices / technologies our user base is accustomed to ! It might
learn us how they use these devices to learn new things and thus allow us to reach them
faster !

14. CocoaHeads
Belgium
Why a Belgian CocoaHeads ?
What to expect from CocaHeads Belgium ?
Brainstorm Session
CocoaHeads Belgium - Gent - 28/09/09
Tuesday 29 September 2009
What to expect from CocoaHeads Belgium ?

15. Whatever
YOU
think is
necessary !
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Anything related to Cocoa / CocoaTouch. Whatever you think you need !
Some ideas ...

16. Monthly Meeting
• Face-to-face meeting
• Presentation on Mac /
iPhone programming
• Show / Discuss your
applications
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Some Ideas / Pointers

17. Website
• Book Reviews
• Product Reviews
• App Reviews
• Tutorials
• ...
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Use the website as a source of information. Book Reviews, Product Reviews, Review your app,
tutorials, ...

18. Together we can build a
community
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The goal is to build a community of Cocoa Developers in Belgium
But I can’t really do that on my own, so I’ll need your help to achieve OUR goal.

19. CocoaHeads Belgium - Gent - 28/09/09
Tuesday 29 September 2009

20. CocoaHeads
Belgium
Why a Belgian CocoaHeads ?
What to expect from CocaHeads Belgium ?
Brainstorm Session
CocoaHeads Belgium - Gent - 28/09/09
Tuesday 29 September 2009

21. CocoaHeads Belgium - Gent - 28/09/09
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Lets hear what the audience has to say, after all they are the driving force behind CocoaHeads
Belgium.