We need more talks, speeches and presentations in (local iOS) meetups. Here I go through pre-meetup questionnaire results and give some ideas how to come up with talk subjects. It's easier than you would think :)

1. WalktheTalk
HelsinkiOS 2017 Oct
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by Jouni Miettunen
at Zalando Helsinki

2. Questionnaire -WeThe Devs
» 33 responses
» 50% for 2-5 years, 37% over 5 years
» 85% professionally, 15% as hobby
» All The Apple, especially iPhone
» 100% Swift over Obj-C (33%)
» 5 mins 9%, 15 mins 53%, 30+ mins 34%

3. Questionnaire -WhyMeetups
» 97% Tech talks
» 85% Meeting other devs
» 30% Getting to know companies
» 15% Looking for work
» Food and beer
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4. Questionnaire - Interested in
» 84% Developer tools
» 78% Architecture
» 72% Programming language features
» 47% Mobile application demos
» 47% Testing
» 41% Open source libraries
» 34% Other tools
» 31% Using backend services
» 31% Developing backend services
» Other (see requests)

5. Questionnaire -Talk Levels
» 91% Expert - You've heard about it
» 72% Medium - You've tried it already
» 53% Weird - Does this really exist
» 28% Basics - Might learn something new

6. Questionnaire - Requests
» New language and SDK features
» Swift 4, Metal 2.0, ARKit, SceneKit
» WebVR/ReactVR
» New things, new ways of looking at old things
» case studies, quirks
» Advanced animations
» How to manage big iOS projects (Scalability)
» Anything and everything. Possibly one of the topics that I would like to
see is contradicting opinions. A pair presentation where developers
would go through two different approaches in development.
» Functional Programming in Swift, Unit Testing in Mobile applications

7. Iwould liketo giveatalk:
Yes 17.2%
No 20.7%
It's Complicated
62.1%

8. Here's some ideasthat
HELPYOUto getstarted

9. Source:Apple
» Apple News and Updates link (sample)
» Apple Developer Documentation, API Changes link
» (Apple Platform SDK API Differences link)
» What’s New in Xcode 9 link
» Xcode Release Notes link
» WWDC 2017 Videos link (sample)

10. Apple Newsand Updates
» Search Ads is Expanding to Canada, Mexico, and
Switzerland
» Creating and Promoting Your AR Apps
» Update Your Apps for iPhone X
» Newly Streamlined App Ratings
» The All-new App Store is Here
» Higher Limit for Over-the-Air Downloads

11. WWDC 2017 Featuredvideos
» Introducing Core ML
» Introducing ARKIT: Augmented Reality for iOS
» Introducing Metal 2
» Introducing Drag and Drop
» What's New in Swift

12. Source: GitHub
» Search for Swift, 94k repos found link
» Awesome iOS link
» The Swift Programming Language PRs link
More: GitHub Explore link
Other: CocoaControls link

13. Source: Newsletters
» iOS Dev Weekly link
» This week in Swift, by Natasha The Robot link
» Swift Talk, by ObjC.io link (videos)
» Realm
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Swift link (videos)
More: Awesome Newsletters link

14. Q&A
SupportYour Local Meetups
ThankYou!
jouni.miettunen@zalando.fi
jouni.miettunen@gmail.com
@jomtwi