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Harrison - I'd love to answer your question - but it looks like the
rest of the community has already done so.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Harold<br>
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On 4/11/12 10:06 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ost@footprintsinthewind.com"><ost@footprintsinthewind.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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
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*Subject:* [OSList] Missoula BarCamp 2012 - Open Space with Lightning
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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. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://missoulabarcamp.org">http://missoulabarcamp.org</a>.
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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://missoulabarcamp.org">http://missoulabarcamp.org</a>
Blessings!
Harold
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