Foo Camp
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Foo Camp is an annual participant-driven conference organized by O’Reilly Media for invited guests (AKA "Friends Of O’Reilly” hence AKA FOO Camp) since 2003, hosted at their Sebastopol office campus, where several IndieWeb community members have led sessions, including on many IndieWeb-aligned principles, concepts, technologies, and was an inspiration for BarCamp which is used as a model for IndieWebCamps.
Primary hashtag: #foocamp
- There are also year specific hashtags since the first year. See years below for those.
IndieWeb community members who have been to Foo Camps in Sebastopol, listed by year, most recent first.
If you add yourself, cite any relevant posts, and list which session(s) you led.
2010
2010-06-25…27: #foocamp2010
Kevin Marks — https://x.com/kevinmarks/status/17212388067- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Photos: https://flickr.com/photos/tags/foocamp2010
2009
~2009-08-29 (need exact from to dates): #foocamp2009
- Kevin Marks — https://x.com/kevinmarks/status/3632389310
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Photos: https://flickr.com/photos/tags/foocamp2009
2005
2005-08-??…??: Foo Camp 2005 wiki (Internet Archive link) and #foocamp2005
IndieWeb Community Attendees:
Tantek Çelik- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Photos: https://flickr.com/photos/tags/foocamp2005
2004
2004-09-??…??: #foocamp2004. foocamp04 wiki (Internet Archive crawls)
IndieWeb Community Attendees:
- Kevin Marks
- Tantek Çelik
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Photos: https://flickr.com/photos/tags/foocamp2004
IndieWeb building blocks related sessions:
- FeedMesh led by Kevin Marks and others: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?FeedMesh (Internet Archive snapshot of session notes)
- HTML for Calendars led by Adam Bosworth: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?HTMLForCalendars
- MVC (Model View Controller) = XHTML + CSS + JS led by Tantek Çelik http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?MVCeqXHTMLCSSJS
- Simple Semantic Formats led by Tantek Çelik & Kevin Marks: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats (Internet Archive snapshot of session notes)
2003
IndieWeb Community Attendees:
- Kevin Marks
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Variants
There have been both geographical and topic-specific variants of Foo Camps that some IndieWebCamp community members have participated and led sessions in. Ordered by earliest first.
- ...
- 2008 Social Graph Foo Camp
- 2009 Social Web Foo Camp
- 2009-2010 Foo East
- ...
If you have been to one of the variants, please add yourself to the examples on that variant's page.
There are other Foo Camp variants listed on Wikipedia:Foo_Camp#Other_events. Only add variants here which have IndieWeb relevance and document their relevance (here or on their own page).
