A presentation on the history of the Melbourne Cocoaheads (http://melbournecocoaheads.com) group given in May 2013.

1. May 2013 - a brief history
Jesse Collis

2. CocoaHeads meetings aren’t just for the techno-geek — they can be
a great opportunity for people to find out what new applications are
coming out for the Mac, iPhone and iPod touch, plus sometimes the
opportunity to become involved in beta-testing of new products.
Australian Macworld August 14, 2008
http://www.macworld.com.au/blogs/mugshots-cocoaheads-585

3. How did you hear of Melbourne Cocoaheads?

4. cocoaheadsau
742 Members, 1005 Topics

6. Version 1.0
• July 2007 - August 2010
• Held @ RMIT Library
• Hat tip to Peter Varitimidis
from RMIT for initial
organisation help
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/melbourne-cocoaheads

7. 2007 (v1.0)
• 5 Meet ups
• 5 Presentations (estimated)
• Held @ Bunker and RMIT Library
• melbournecocoaheads.com in August

8. 2008 (v1.0)
• 9 Meet ups (April-December)
• 18 Presentations
• Held at RMIT Library
• Brisbane Cocoaheads in June
• Write up in Australian Macworld
• iPhone release July

9. 2009 (V1.0)
• 10 Meetings (Feb - November)
• 13/14 Presentations
• Sydney Cocoaheads in February
• Hack Night by Marcus Crafter in March @
Joe’s Garage

10. @rob_caporetto presenting, July 2009

11. 2010 Part 1
• iPad release Aril 2010
• April 2010 - First post by Sean Woodhouse
• May meet up was at the Oxford Scholar
(Sean’s Idea)
• June meet up cancelled for WWDC
• Feb - August had 5 meet ups
• 8~9 Presentations

12. Cocoaheads v2.0
Beer and Pizza become the norm
Spearheaded by Seven Holloway
from realestate.com.au

13. 2010 Part 2
• September - November hosted by
realestate.com.au
• Beer and Pizza then more beer prevailed
setting a good habits and high turnout.
• 8 Presentations

14. 2011
The year of the travelling salesman
• Sean Woodhouse took over
from Gareth Townsend
• 11 Meet ups, 22 Presenters, 10 Locations
• Hosting companies continued with beer
and pizza
• Sean’s write up: http://web.archive.org/web/20120102124854/
http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/

15. Cocoaheads People
October 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamorj/sets/72157627929204930/

16. 2012
At home at RMIT, High definition video, Sponsorship

19. 2012
• Tickets for Melbourne’s March event Sell out (80)
• Introduction of Lightening talks
• Videos of almost all presentations
• 11 Meet ups, 19+ Presentations, 6+
Lightening presentations
• Corporate Sponsorship

20. 2007-2012 Speakers
• 2007 Jedda Wignall, Gareth Townsend, Mathieu Tozer, Doug Clarke, Robert Stainsby
• 2008 Marcus Crafter, Robert Stainsby, Bulkan-Savun Evcimen, Gareth Townsend, Daniel Saffioti, Bart van Deventer,
Doug Clark, Scott Brewer, Luke Tupper, Mathieu Tozer, Oliver Jones, Joshua Bassett, Ben Britten
• 2009 Daniel Read, Josh Basset, Luke Tupper, Gareth Townsend, Matt Gallagher, Robert Stainsby, Rob Caporetto,
Alexandre Queiroz, Josh Basset, Daniel Read
• 2010 Rob Caporetto , Farad, Luke Tupper, Jeff Bonnes, Bill Tinker, Sadat Rahman, Scott Brewer, Marcus
Crafter ,Steven Holloway, Kevin O’neill, Chris Miles, Sean Woodhouse, Jesse Collis
• 2011 Stewart Gleadow, Jeff Tan-Ang, Grant Adam, Kevin O’Neill, Oliver Jones, Alan Harper, Chris Miles, Jesse Collis,
Steven Holloway, Luke Tupper, Scott Manley, David Kennedy, Luke Cunningham, Bradley Clayton, Vlado Grancaric,
Patrick Richards, Sadat Rahman, Alex Silverman, Loukas Kalenderidis, Jeff Bonnes, Rob Caporetto, Keith Pitt
• 2012 (Includes Lightenings) Jesse Collis, Chaise Hocking, Chris Miles, Rob Caporetto, Oliver Jones, Bradley
Clayton, Aron Bury, Alan Rogers, Alexander O'Han, Andrew Canto, Scott Brewer, Peter Goldsmith, Josh ?, Luke Tupper,
Mark Afflick, Robert Stainsby, Adam Eberbach, Chris Miles, Derek Clarkson, Pete Hodgson, Donny Kurniawan, Craig
Peebles, Matt Toohey

21. Lots of other
Cocoaheads

22. Closing thoughts...
• When was your first Melbourne
Cocoaheads?
• Have you done a presentation yet?
• Have we drunk all the beer yet?

23. Also see...
• http://cocoaheads.tv/a-brief-history-of-cocoaheads-
by-mark-dalrymple/
• http://cocoaheads.tv
• http://cocoaheads.org
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?
hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/melbourne-cocoaheads
• http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com