Thanks Bob! What is this foo-bar you speak of? It sounds like some sort of mythic reference that deserves some historical context. Partly kidding... I know that foo and bar have been used as names for arbitrary variables, similar to X and Y for algebra, but does anyone know if there is a connection to the old acronym, which I think came from the military sphere, fubar: f'ed up beyond all recognition (which might also relate to snafu: situation normal, all ....) ???
:) On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Bob Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > History. > > Once upon a time, Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Publishing) invited > hundreds of interesting people to an "unconference" called > FOO (Friends Of O'Reilly). It had no published program, but > participants were invited to present talks about whatever was > interesting them at the time. > > Since FOO was invitation-only, a bunch of people who weren't > invited started the Bar Camps. (foo - bar, get it?) The theme > is the same: no published program, please bring something > interesting. And there are many Bar Camps worldwide. > > I went to the first Beaver Bar Camp. About half the people there > presented at least one talk. I'm planning to go to this one too. > I don't have any talks in mind yet. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Kent Loobey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2011 16:49:07 Larry Price wrote: > >> Just a reminder to all of us interested in geeky activities. > >> > >> http://beaverbarcamp.org/index.php/Beaver_BarCamp7 > >> > >> Is coming up. > >> > >> I'm planning on doing a workshop on using PostGIS to manipulate spatial > >> data, with examples using the City of Albany shapefiles that are > available > >> online and some hackery I'm doing with the GoWalla api. > > > > So what is a "Beaver Bar Camp" about? PostGIS? Will the workshops be > posted > > before the event date? > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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