What’s your expertise level
with jQuery?
23%
55%
23%
Never used
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
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What’s your expertise level
with JavaScript?
32%
59%
5%
5%
Never used
Only w/ jQuery
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
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How many meetups have
you been to?
36%
18%
45%
None
1
2-5
More than 5
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Which meetups from 2013
were most helpful?
Feature Prototyping
Mobile
Animated Menu
HTML5
jQuery + Beyond
Effects + structure
Responsive
Kendo UI
Video
qUnit
Windows 8
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Where’s the best place to
have meetups?
West Side South Bay SFV Downtown SGV
Convenient
Good Enough
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What are the best days for
meetups?
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Most-requested topics
• Real-world use, practical tips
• Best practices
• Mobile web dev
• Workflow
• DOM traversal, DOM manipulation
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Comments or Questions on
the Survey?
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jQuery News
• jQuery 1.11.0 RC1 released January 16
• jQuery 2.1.0 RC1 released January 16
• jQuery UI 1.10.4 released January 17
• jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 released December 23
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jQuery News
• The State of jQuery 2014 from the jQuery blog
http://blog.jquery.com/2014/01/13/the-state-of-
jquery-2014/
• The jQuery Foundation and Standards from the jQuery
blog
http://blog.jquery.com/2014/01/15/the-jquery-
foundation-and-standards/
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jQuery News
• Writing a Better JavaScript Library for the DOM by
Maksim Chemerisuk
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2014/01/13/
better-javascript-library-for-the-dom/
• Animate SVG Icons with CSS3 & jQuery by Joseph
Howard
http://www.pencilscoop.com/2013/11/animate-svg-
icons-with-css3-jquery/
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jQuery Plugins
• jquery.doge.js from Visual Idiot
http://visualidiot.com/articles/doge
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Upcoming Events
• jQuery Conference
February 12-14 in San Diego
Preceded by the ROOST JavaScript Conference,
February 10-11
http://events.jquery.org/2014/san-diego/