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When Geeks Go Camping
mikep.maine writes "CNN and Business 2.0 have an interesting article on Tim O'Reilly's Foo camp for geeks - not just any geek - people like Google founders, Tim Bray (invented XML), and venture capitalists. Stashed away in the rolling hills north of San Francisco ... Foo Camp, a new breed of geek gathering organized (somewhat) by O'Reilly & Associates. The idea: Get 200 or so smart folks with a lot in common together in one place at one time, let them pitch tents, toss in a Wi-Fi network, and see what happens. Turns out, quite a lot. You are as likely to bump into a founder of Google (both were there) as the vice chairman of Warburg Pincus. Yes, they had Wi-Fi and marshmallows."
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This storyline on UserFriendly is about geeks camping. It's one of the best storylines, IMO. It continues until July 04, 2000.
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Um, Sebastopol's not near any rolling San Francisco hills. I lived their a few year ago. It's at least an hour and a half north... if traffic is good.
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And on a side note. I wish I would've stayed friends with the folks I knew at O'Reilly, Then perhaps I could've gone to geek camp
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It's always interesting reading his journal and here's his take on the camp.
/ FooNotes
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A sixpack for a weekend?
Get real. A sixpack is a Friday evening warm-up to the weekend!
There were 11 other people on the committee and a couple hundred more in the discussion group. Geez.
Quite true. On the Appalachian Trail this year, I saw many a geek with GPS gear, Pocketmail devices, cellphones, PDAs, etc., PLUS all the other cool camping stuff like white-LED headlamps, a whole spectrum of campstoves, Tyvek everything, ultralightweight packs and fabrics. Long-distance hiking culture is truly a geek culture. The hacker ethos is essentially unchanged.
Of course, there are many who would deny this, and so often hikers keep their tech toys hidden. There's even a guy ("Rusty") who will put you up for free in Shenandoah (or was it North Carolina...? it all blends together after awhile) UNLESS you have something battery-operated.
Check this out. It's a denatured-alcohol burning camp stove made out of Pepsi cans. I hiked the first 800 or so miles with an MSR SuperFly (butane), but switched to this when fuel got too hard to find (and too expensive). It lasted me the rest of the trail, four months! Literally cost only several dollars in parts, and I could even burn isopropyl alcohol in a pinch.
I love hiking! I spent a great deal of time dreaming up better ways of sending email on the trail... :)
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