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Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar'
theodp writes "CNET reports on this weekend's Bar Camp, an open-source alternative to O'Reilly Media's A-List Foo Camp, which CEO Tim O'Reilly explains employs a "Bozo filter" to exclude undesirable attendees.
Then again, alternative events (not "alternative" in the sense of the label given to certain rock bands, but actually created as an alternative to a more exclusive event) sometimes do develop into something worthwhile. First one that comes to mind is the Sundance Film Festival alternative, Slamdance.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Maybe a catchier headline would've been:
Foo 2 Bar Bozo
Didn't get an invite to the latest camp? I pity the Foo...
It's OK for Tim O'Reilly to invite who he likes, and it's a very difficult thing to do. Far from creating a rival camp being a bitter and evil thing to do, it's an extremely constructive and positive response, and it could mean that there are two creative geek hothouse conferences where before there was one. Let a thousand flowers bloom!
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employs a "Bozo filter"
I don't understand why people are upset about this. This filter should only apply to clowns, not IT folks.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
This is open source... its just a branch from the original idea, re-packaged by someone new for the problem that they want to solve.
Sure forks in the code/idea base aren't always good but I'm sure if Bar gets some good ideas that they will be incorporated back into the Foo release.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
my first thought was, "What the hell is Bill O'Reily doing with a camp called 'foo?'"
You have to understand the objectives of the event.
Well sure with names like Foo Camp and Bar Camp, who wouldn't be able to pick up on that.
I take it any code produced there will be called "Bar Code"?
IGMC.
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Or maybe not, since when the Macintosh was released, files with their "Bozo bits" (one of a handful of flags a file could have) would be copy protected (and couldn't be copied in the Finder). It was so called because "only a bozo would rely on this for real copy protection" (since nothing prevented them from being turned off)
Once.
Hey. I'm here!
t ml
Make sure to stop and say hi!
http://www.feedblog.org/2005/08/see_you_at_barc.h
I cannot assign this article to the category "Stuff That Matters"... It just keeps jumping into the category "Stuff That is Totally Irrelevant".
My task is now clear. I will have to assimilate them! Their resistance is futile!
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Well, I'll organize my own conference! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the conference!
Everyone knows it.
There's no charge for Foo camp. O'Reilly hosts it, rents showers, and pays for food, wireless, and electricity.
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From TFA:
So how do we decide who to invite? ...
Then we put together a list of a thousand odd names that we have to winnow down as best we can...
Sixth cut: the bozo filter. Someone who has been at a previous FOO camp, and whom we had complaints about for some reason or another, or who has built that kind of reputation on the net. Unfortunately, you probably don't know who you are, but other people do.
Tim: Dude, no. Last time I invited you to a party, you broke into my parent's liquor cabinent, through half their furnature into the fireplace, had sex with the dog, and I was grounded for a month. You are most definitely not invited.
Bozo:ELITIST!!!
As it says in the article, this is an event that only works well if it is below a certain size, and where there are many more deserving poetential invities than there are spots for them. There IS NO PERFECT WAY to filter down a group like that. This is not high-school, where everyone but you got invited to the cool party, so now you're not talkint to your best friend anymore.
Also notice that this is "sixth cut"-- where they've already made five passes at trying to cut the guest list down to a managable size, but still need to cut it down further.
Creating the "Bar" camp is a cool idea. Bitching about not getting into the "Foo" camp is just childish.
Haha, loser! It's speled "spel", not "spell". You need to get a speling checkre.
-russ
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I don't really understand what the big deal is.
There are basically two types of people in the world, people who do stuff (coders) and people who talk about stuff (writers). And then somewhere below that there are people who make money off of writers (publishers).
I don't have anything against publishers per se but who really cares? I mean _really_ cares?
"Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a metasyntactic variable..."
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Or at the Home Depot/Tool Time Conference For Better Floor Finishes - but maybe for different reasons. ;)
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