FOO Camp
As the story goes, someone was joking that O’Reilly should have a literal “Foo Bar” and invite movers and shakers in technology over for some drinks. Thus FOO Camp was born, FOO later becoming a backronym for “friends of O’Reilly.”
So who are the tech superstars here that I know? (By “know” I mean “recognize”)
The Bloglines guy. The Amazon.com. The del.icio.us guy. The Wikipedia guy. The Perl guy. The Atom guys. The Python guy. The Flickr folks. The Mozilla Firefox folks. The Adaptive Path folks. The Smart Mobs guy. The We the Media guy. The Hackers and Crypto guy. The Yahoo guy. The Greasemonkey guy. The Technorati guys. The wiki guy. The BitTorrent guy. The Blogger and Odeo guy.
It’s kind of like OSCON, but with drinking during the conference and camping after. I hung out with Kyle Rankin, a friend and author of Knoppix Hacks, as well as some other O’Reilly folks. We played with a homemade segway and drooled over the SUV of Segways that Phillip Torrone (Make magazine) had brought.
After a while it was late, I was tired, and I was not going to be spending the night in a tent because I have a bed in Santa Rosa. Though I admit they looked pretty cool under the moonlight and fog in the orchard behind O’Reilly Media.
Tomorrow I have a Beer Revival to attend, with a slim chance I’ll might make it back in the am to listen to some of the morning talks.
Beer needs to be revived?!