Meeting Pieter for the first time in person, in London when I was there for
Strata ( I think it was 2012? ) resulted in an evening of drinks, walks,
and conversations with him and another friend of mine that stands out as
one of my favorite experiences I have had traveling for conferences...
followed by hanging out with him and some of you wonderful people in
Brussels at ZeroMQ workshops.  I still constantly see interesting things
happening in software or the world and reflexively think "I should show
this to Pieter!".

It was a gift to know him well enough to miss him. Cheers, friends.
Brian

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Dec 3, 2017, at 6:07 PM, Mark Botner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Osiris,
>
> I first learned of ZeroMQ/Pieter when I listened to him on Floss Weekly in
> 2011. I had been working with CORBA based systems for several years at that
> point on knew there must be a better way - I just didn't know that way was
> with ZeroMQ!
> I then used ZeroMQ for several projects, and sent Pieter a note at one
> point thanking him for what he had done and he kindly replied. He even
> offered to buy me a beer if we were ever able to meet in person.
> Unfortunately, I never met him in person, but clearly, he was a visionary
> with the gift of seeing the future in messaging.
> Once again, I'm using ZeroMQ at my new job/company and often put in the
> comments "RIP Pieter Hintjens".  Maybe someone who reads the comments later
> on will bother to figure out who he was.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Osiris Pedroso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Today is Pieter's birthday.
>>
>> Thank you Pieter for all your guidance and knowledge over the years.
>>
>> I knew you for just a little bit, but you still are a great influence in
>> my professional life.
>>
>> Thanks for your contributions to ZeroMQ and to Open Source communities at
>> large.
>>
>
> I just toasted Pieter. He was a great man and father.
>
> cr
>
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