Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar'

theodp writes "CNET reports on this weekend's Bar Camp, an open-source alternative to O'Reilly Media's A-List Foo Camp, which CEO Tim O'Reilly explains employs a "Bozo filter" to exclude undesirable attendees.

Re:Bozo Filters

[Speare]

Dynamics of Software Development http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556 158238 [amazon.com]

• Rule #4 "Don't Flip The Bozo Bit". This rule is necessary to keep #2 ["Get Their Heads Into The Game"] working. The author deals with the natural tendency that people have to become defensive when criticism is offered of their ideas. This can actually cause both the critic and the one being criticized to tune each other out. The author suggests that team members call each other on it when the Bozo Bit is being flipped.

Re:Scott Adams should sue...

[gandreas]

Or maybe not, since when the Macintosh was released, files with their "Bozo bits" (one of a handful of flags a file could have) would be copy protected (and couldn't be copied in the Finder). It was so called because "only a bozo would rely on this for real copy protection" (since nothing prevented them from being turned off)

Re:insanely expensive

[chromatic]

There's no charge for Foo camp. O'Reilly hosts it, rents showers, and pays for food, wireless, and electricity.

It's FUBAR, not foobar

[RKBA]

Yet another testament that geeks can't spell. It's FUBAR (as in "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition"), not FOOBAR.