On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Gaspard Bucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> I nearly died of stress hearing your conference ;-). LOL. That was me speaking very carefully and slowly... > Being an insider, it's hard for me to hear it with fresh ears and tell > objectively if a newcomer would understand what 0MQ is so maybe you can tell > us what the reaction of the audience was... People liked it, and we could have had loads of questions, but lightning talks are really brutal, you get to stand up, open your mouth, start to speak, people clap, you leave... No-one can understand 0MQ from a 10-minute explanation. At the best they can hear "it can solve your problem X", but they usually still won't believe it. Multithreading seems to be a common enough pain for developers that they listen when we say, "0MQ does MT without the pain". They still don't believe it until they've seen it running. And even then, they still don't really believe it. :-) > PS: I actually found some parts pretty funny (0MQ will become bold MQ: no > more hair/threads!) but could not hear any reaction from the audience. Were > they tired or do we just not hear them on the recording ? The mike is on me, and you don't really hear the audience. They were warmed up and the room was fully packed, and they laughed at all the right places. 0MQ is definitely a surprising proposition to many people, and I think the goal of getting folk to take a look worked. The slides I uploaded* have had 5,000+ views. FWIW there's also a thread on Hacker News. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185418 -Pieter * http://www.slideshare.net/pieterh/fosdem-2011-0mq _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
