Presenting OpenNTF in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia

The official R7 launch event was quite funny. The stage was designed like a box ring and two boxers performed a fight. The yellow fighter (labelled Domino R7) knocked out the red one (labelled "Business Pains"). The crowd of about 350 people enjoyed the difference to the usually rather stiff IBM events. Seems like hiring marketing people from Microsoft (the new kids on the IBM block in SE-Asia are all ex-Microsoft) had some impact already.
After the two round ring fight and the introduction in the R7 achievements at about 10:45 I had my turn.
I created a fast paced crossfire of slides in a mix of my own and the "Identity 2.0" style. This already had worked out well in Beijing, where I mixed big pictures, screen shots, English text and Chinese characters. (see for yourself).
About 5% of the audience had heart about OpenNTF and I saw quite some amazed faces when I introduced the OpenNTF application line-up (Bruce can you check for IP that belong to Malaysia in the OpenNTF logs?). I made them laugh quite a number of times. The slide with Singapore and the arrow was too tempting. Malaysia and Singapore have a kind of love/hate relationship since Singapore broke away in 1965. So my punch line was "I live in Singapore, in case you don't know where Singapore is, its that little renegade island down south". Of course only Malaysians laugh about that.
The local IBMers were quite surprised too and they see quite some potential for OpenNTF in the Malaysian market. Eventually they want to support OpenNTF a bit. Of course details need to be worked out. After my session in the tea break a lot of people expressed their pleasure with the presentation and asked for more details. So mission accomplished <g>.

Download the presentation overview and have a look. Full PPT on request.