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33: 75:, at one of O'Reilly's conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O'Reilly with much unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp. The first FOO Camp was held in October 2003, and had approximately 200 attendees. There was eventually a Foo Bar at the camp. 78:
Tim O'Reilly describes the goal of his company as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." Foo Camp has evolved into an important mechanism for finding those innovators. O'Reilly asks attendees to nominate new and interesting people to be invited to future camps.
54:. O'Reilly describes it as "the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule; this type of event is sometimes called an 120:, Collective Intelligence Foo Camp, Social Graph Foo Camp, and others. February 2019, O'Reilly co-organized its second Social Science Foo Camp with Facebook and SAGE at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. December 2010, O'Reilly co-organized NewsFoo with Google and the 582: 367: 270: 340: 315: 91:
was created by a past attendee of Foo Camp and a few individuals who were interested in organizing their own version of Foo Camp, and hosted at the
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In 2011, O'Reilly announced the Health Foo on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Blog. In February 2018, O’Reilly,
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Since February 2007, former O'Reilly employee Nathan Torkington has hosted an annual Kiwi Foo Camp in
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and Sara Winge, O'Reilly's VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a
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O'Reilly has since held a series of topical Foo Camps at Google Headquarters, including
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at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix Arizona.
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held the first Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook in
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FOO Camp

Tim O'Reilly
hacker
O'Reilly Media
unconference
Tim O'Reilly
foo bar
BarCamp
Socialtext
Palo Alto
California
Ross Mayfield
Warkworth, New Zealand
Science Foo Camp
Knight Foundation
Facebook
SAGE Publications
Menlo Park
Foobar
BarCamp
"The future of the scientific conference"
"When geeks go camping, ideas hatch"
"FOO Camp – Justinsomnia"
"Kiwi Foo Camp Website"
"Geeks gather to share, network and play"
the original
"How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business"
"Social science's lessons for business"
"Tim O'Reilly to Host 'Unconference' for Health, Tech Leaders"

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