[OSList] Missoula BarCamp 2012 - Open Space with Lightning Keynotes

Thu Apr 12 06:16:51 PDT 2012

WOW★

Spark fouled up!!!^^
2012. 4. 12. 오후 10:11에 "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.org>님이 작성:

> Dear Harold,
> my first email address was mmpanne at snafu.de, "snafu" was just about the
> best company in this sector in Berlin having many big customers. Nobody
> realized the meaning of snafu and I always thought that some of the GIs
> that hung around Berlin after leaving the military created it...that turned
> out to be a rumor. As I remember there was a politically more correct
> version of snafu: situation normal all fouled up.
> snafu.de was founded in Berlin in 1994... still going strong.
> mmp
>
> On 12.04.2012 08:01, Harold Shinsato wrote:
>
>> Harrison - I'd love to answer your question - but it looks like the rest
>> of the community has already done so.
>>
>> I first encountered foo and bar as names for variables in my first LISP
>> programming classes back at MIT in 1980. I only learned years later that
>> it was derived from FUBAR. The last time I looked up this acronym there
>> were some who disputed the etymology as coming from the military - which
>> I though was ridiculous - it seemed perfect military gallows humor. But
>> that seems to have been worked out given the reference to a 1944 U.S.
>> Army animated short directed by Fritz Freleng including characters named
>> Snafu, Tarfu, and Fubar. (Situation Normal All F***ed Up, Things Are
>> Really F***ed Up, Totally And Royally F***ed Up).
>>
>> Scatology aside - the first private invitation only Friends of O'Reilly
>> in 2004 was an Open Space without the facilitation - they just gave
>> folks a grid of times and places to fill in. It was held on the lawn and
>> many of the attendees camped out on O'Reilly's corporate headquarter's
>> lawn in Sebastopol, California. It made such a dramatic impact on the
>> computer and publishing industries that it was copied by people in the
>> Bay Area who didn't get invited and wanted to take advantage of the
>> spacious dynamic format. They called it BarCamp - an obvious name for
>> geeks as a complement to FooCamp. A "backcronym" for the event, invented
>> after the fact, is "Bay Area Rejects". Har har! The BarCamp spread
>> beyond tech into arts, law, real estate, and more, and are held around
>> the world. But it's like a bad copy of OST - but has made an impact.
>>
>>     Harold
>>
>> On 4/11/12 10:06 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote:
>>
>>> In case anyone wonders, FUBAR was a term in the US army that gives an
>>> official-sounding name to a situation where things are really going
>>> badly. It's intended as a joke, like laughing in the face of the
>>> absurdity of life. It stands for "F**ed Up Beyond All Recognition."
>>>
>>> A really handy term in this life of complex and wicked problems. No
>>> wonder the computer folks picked it up, tho I note it's spelled
>>> "foobar".
>>>
>>> So I proudly note that Open Space is a pretty good antidote to foobar!
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>> San Francisco
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:01 PM, doug<ost at footprintsinthewind.**com<ost at footprintsinthewind.com>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Harrison--
>>>>
>>>> I think both are an inside joke in computing circles, particularly
>>>> those of
>>>> the linux/unix flavors. They will often use example names of files and
>>>> applications that have the word foobar in the title. To translate to
>>>> Windows
>>>> users, it might be something like, "To do X, first execute the
>>>> foobar.exe
>>>> file, then...."
>>>>
>>>> Harold I would presume can give you the more juicy details, but I
>>>> wanted to
>>>> demonstrate to all that I had run into the term before, although that
>>>> and $2
>>>> will get you a cup of coffee....<grin>
>>>>
>>>>                        :- Doug.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04/11/2012 04:06 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Harold - Sounds wonderful! And ... could you answer a stupid question
>>>>> that
>>>>> has niggled my mind for a while: What is the derivation of "BarCamp?"
>>>>> "Camp" I understand, but "bar?" And while you are at it - how about the
>>>>> same for "Foocamp."
>>>>>
>>>>> Harrison
>>>>>
>>>>> Harrison Owen
>>>>>
>>>>> 7808 River Falls Dr.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Camden, Maine 20854
>>>>>
>>>>> Phone 301-365-2093
>>>>>
>>>>> (summer) 207-763-3261
>>>>>
>>>>> www.openspaceworld.com
>>>>>
>>>>> www.ho-image.com  (Personal Website)
>>>>>
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>>>>> *On Behalf Of *Harold
>>>>> Shinsato
>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:18 PM
>>>>> *To:*oslist at openspacetech.org
>>>>> *Subject:* [OSList] Missoula BarCamp 2012 - Open Space with Lightning
>>>>>
>>>>> Keynotes
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear OSList,
>>>>>
>>>>> If any of you are in Montana this weekend, you'll receive a very
>>>>> friendly welcome at the premier Montana Open Space event - Missoula
>>>>> BarCamp. April 13-14.http://missoulabarcamp.**org<http://missoulabarcamp.org>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>> Inspired originally by O'Reilly's FooCamp and the spinoff BarCamp until
>>>>> Kaliya Hamlin educated me about Open Space Technology. I eventually
>>>>> learned OST was the pure lineage from which sprang BarCamp. So though
>>>>> we
>>>>> use the BarCamp title, I launched it straight from the OST manual back
>>>>> in 2008 after I took Lisa Heft's awesome training.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're in our fifth year. It's a conversation between artists, techies,
>>>>> and people who want to make the world better (change agents).
>>>>>
>>>>> Inspired by the awesome work Peggy Holman has done with the Journalism
>>>>> That Matters conferences - we start with warm up talks. We now call
>>>>> them
>>>>> "Lightning Keynotes" so we can attract bigger names with giving them
>>>>> the
>>>>> "bully pulpit" for a short time - and they usually stay and get
>>>>> involved
>>>>> in the Open Space as well. We've partnered with IgniteMissoula - so we
>>>>> also opened up for some community submitted 5 minute talks. I'm excited
>>>>> that OSList member and fellow JTM-er Sono Hashisaki will be one of
>>>>> those
>>>>> Lightning Keynotes.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is our fifth year - and it's exciting to see it happening in a
>>>>> beautiful facility - the Native American Center - a gorgeous new
>>>>> building with a circular lobby that seems built for Open Space. The
>>>>> University of Montana president will kick us off. I'm very much excited
>>>>> - and deeply grateful to all the support I've received from this
>>>>> community over the years.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://missoulabarcamp.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Blessings!
>>>>> Harold
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Harold Shinsato
>>>>> harold at shinsato.com  <mailto:harold at shinsato.com>
>>>>> http://shinsato.com
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>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
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