When Geeks Go Camping

Posted by michael on Friday January 9, 2004 @11:29AM from the camptown-racers-sing-a-song dept.

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 by Beolach · 2004-01-09 11:37 · Score: 5, Informative

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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Tim Bray's account of camp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:50 · Score: 5, Informative

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 by tbray · 2004-01-09 12:10 · Score: 5, Informative

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