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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UF Storyline

[Beolach]

This storyline on UserFriendly is about geeks camping. It's one of the best storylines, IMO. It continues until July 04, 2000.

Tim Bray's account of camp

[Anonymous Coward]

It's always interesting reading his journal and here's his take on the camp.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/11/ FooNotes

I didn't invent XML dammit

[tbray]

There were 11 other people on the committee and a couple hundred more in the discussion group. Geez.

Re:I'm a geek, I like to camp

[talleyrand]

'd advise you to Google for "beaver fever" but you probably wouldn't get the result I'm thinking of (SafeSearch probably won't let you search at all...) And darned if I can remember the formal name for it. Somebody else remember? Anybody? Bueller?

Giardia Nasty stuff