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Sunday, April 29, 2012

That's so meta.

—srikanth @ 10:46

(1) lead to (2). Story plz?

BTW, (2) eventually led to something else, which we’ve asked about before!

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde and Ananth

Show Answer

Sara Winge (a VP at O’Reilly) jokingly wanted to host a “Foo Bar” - a bar for Friends Of O’Reilly. This eventually morphed into the creation of Foo Camp (Friends Of O’Reilly camp), an annual-ish conference. Eventually, a Foo Bar was actually hosted at one of the Foo camps.