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Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar'

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the foo-vs-bar-gets-foobar'd dept.

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.

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  1. Alternatives by gbulmash · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why does this article make me think of the old saying: "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member"?

    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.

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    1. Re:Alternatives by laurensv · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Salon des Refusés, anyone?

  2. Headline... by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe a catchier headline would've been:

    Foo 2 Bar Bozo

  3. Mr. T by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't get an invite to the latest camp? I pity the Foo...

    1. Re:Mr. T by dj245 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I got this in my RSS feed with the headline Does O'Reilly have a smelly crotch?

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  4. Good for everyone, surely? by Paul+Crowley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  5. From TFA by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. I take it... by Paul+Crowley · · Score: 3, Funny

    I take it any code produced there will be called "Bar Code"?

    IGMC.

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  7. Re:Bozo Filters by Speare · · Score: 3, Informative
    Dynamics of Software Development http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556 158238
    • Rule #4 "Don't Flip The Bozo Bit". This rule is necessary to keep #2 ["Get Their Heads Into The Game"] working. The author deals with the natural tendency that people have to become defensive when criticism is offered of their ideas. This can actually cause both the critic and the one being criticized to tune each other out. The author suggests that team members call each other on it when the Bozo Bit is being flipped.
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  8. Re:Scott Adams should sue... by gandreas · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

  9. The sword cuts both ways. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Ironically, Bar Camp attendee Dave Winer, who has been pretty vocal about not being invited to Foo Camp, went to the uppity invite-only World Economic Forum in Davos once.

    Once.

  10. I'm here! Say hi! by burtonator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey. I'm here!

    Make sure to stop and say hi!

    http://www.feedblog.org/2005/08/see_you_at_barc.ht ml

  11. My task is now clear... by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 4, Funny
    Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar'

    My task is now clear. I will have to assimilate them! Their resistance is futile!

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  12. BozoFilter was directed at Winer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows it.

  13. Haha, loser! by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haha, loser! It's speled "spel", not "spell". You need to get a speling checkre.
    -russ

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  14. Re:While they are at it by biglig2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only on Slashdot would someone feel it necessary to define the word stripper.

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