On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Hume <[email protected]> wrote:
> interesting, but unpersuasive, talk. Persuasion takes a bit more than 10 minutes :-) What I've learned from doing loads of 5/10 minute talks on complex topics is that if you can make people remember just one thing, you've done well. Annoying them is often a good way. > (pieter do you ever swing by the usa? or can we video conference somehow?) Always open to a Skype call. Travel is possible but depends where, when, and whether there is business at the other end. With 0MQ we face a number of fairly classic barriers, mainly IMO that to understand the possibilities of the approach you have to use it for a while. No-one, IME, has ever understood 0MQ until they used it. What this means, I think, is that persuasion has to be two-fold. For the most competent users (such as the folk on this list), the pure possibilities that a new, better way of working can give are enough reason to explore. Pioneers always explore, it's how they keep their edge. And then there's the mass market, which follows, and is persuaded purely because others tell them "the water's safe". We're still talking to pioneers, and will be for a while. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
