16 Responses to “That’s so meta.”

1. Sumanth Patlolla

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   Foo Camp, an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O’Reilly Media. Quoting Wiki : The event started as a joke between Tim O’Reilly and Sara Winge, O’Reilly’s VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a foo bar, an open bar for Friends of O’Reilly, at one of O’Reilly’s conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O’Reilly with lots of unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp. There was eventually a Foo Bar at the camp.

   
   
2. Rogi

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   I’ll just do a wiki-quote: “The event started as a joke between Tim O’Reilly and Sara Winge, O’Reilly’s VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a foo bar, an open bar for Friends of O’Reilly, at one of O’Reilly’s conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O’Reilly with lots of unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp. There was eventually a Foo Bar[1] at the camp.”

   
   
3. Bharath

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   Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O’Reilly Media. 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.”

   
   
4. badideabear

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   1. Foo Bar 2. 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.” “

   
   
5. Sujoy

   The actual Foo bar which led to the Foo camp

   
   
6. Manish Achuth

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   Foobar leading to Foocamp.

   
   
7. KK

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   Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O’Reilly Media The event foo bar started as a joke between Tim O’Reilly and Sara Winge, O’Reilly’s VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a foo bar, an open bar for Friends of O’Reilly, at one of O’Reilly’s conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O’Reilly with lots of unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp. There was eventually a Foo Bar at the camp.

   
   
8. Allexia

   thanks for sharing your thoughts. take care.http://www.tvbandeirantes.net

   
   
9. rickde

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   FOO BAR led to FOO Camp led to Boot camp

   
   
10. Bianca

    good work done by the blogger, keep up the work going.http://www.onibusbh.com

    
    
11. Enilda

    agree.http://www.cameraescondida.net

    
    
12. Anice

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13. Anunciação

    this is the third website that i found about this. and your explanation is the better.http://www.bandeirantes.org

    
    
14. Ananth

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    Foo bar, Foo camp, bar camp.

    
    
15. Élida

    every time i come here i am not disappointed. nice post.http://www.musicapaulafernandes.net

    
    
16. raklodramA

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    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.