When Geeks Go Camping

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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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FP by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Howard Dean blows it BIGTIME! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ne ws/archive/2004/01/09/politics1546EST0686.DTL&type =printable
Wes Clark wins
Score one for the Clintons
The democrats are irrelevant by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bush will have it in a landslide.

You might as well not vote.
Re:I dunno man by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Germany supports terrorism and should be avoided!
Re:I dunno man by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

America supports terrorism and should be avoided!
uh huh huh uh by WormholeFiend · 2004-01-09 11:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

he said "pitch tents" huhuhuhhuhhhh
NEIL PEART IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Re:Judensau by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Judensau. What is it all about... is it good, or is it whack?
Re:Judensau by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Whackwhackwhackwhackwhack! Plus Zyklon-B!
Re:I dunno man by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Everyone supports terrorism and should be avoided! Why do you think we are sending probes to MARS?
Europeans are fags, that's why by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 11:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't send a worthless piece of European dog shit to do a man's job. Whether it's Mars, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Hitler, whatever the hell have you: All Europeans are as worthless as the French pussies who are stinking up that woebegone continent.

Attention all You're-a-Pee'ins: Just commit mass suicide NOW and let the adults who are actually RUNNING this planet go about it without all the annoying CARPING from the children running Europe.
1. Re:Europeans are fags, that's why by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 12:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  ROFL
2. Re:Europeans are fags, that's why by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 12:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Europe. What is that all about... is it good, or is it whack?
And this one time, at foo camp by IainMH · 2004-01-09 23:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I once stuck a PCMCIA card up my p*ssy.