Meetup for Portland folks to get a chance to discuss 0mq with one of its lead developers, Pieter Hintjens.

"ØMQ is The Intelligent Transport Layer:  Ø  The socket library that acts as a concurrency framework.  Ø  Faster than TCP, for clustered products and supercomputing.  Ø  Carries messages across inproc, IPC, TCP, and multicast.  Ø  Connect N-to-N via fanout, pubsub, pipeline, request-reply.  Ø  Asynch I/O for scalable multicore message-passing apps.  Ø  Large and active open source community.  Ø  20+ languages including C, C++, Java, .NET, Python.  Ø  Most OSes including Linux, Windows, OS X.  Ø  LGPL free software with full commercial support from iMatix."