FooCamp

FooCamp, BarCamp, DoCamp

August 17, 2005

What are you doing this weekend?

Want to put together a camp for “do-ers” wherever you are?

Whether you’re in Boston, Tehran, Moscow, Bombay, Shanghai, or Baghdad?

FooCamp is an invite-only free camp in Sebastapol, California for “Friends of (Tim) O’Reilly” who are doers. It’s this weekend. It’s for people who do things like “web services, data visualization and search, open source programming, computer security, hardware hacking, GPS”. Or whatever.

Some folks that didn’t get invited to FooCamp created BarCamp which is also happening this weekend in Palo Alto, California. That’s a great idea. It is going to be a great place to brainstorm and do.

Why don’t you create a BarCamp in your town this weekend?

Need a wiki? I have heard pbwiki is good and free. There’s also wikispaces and seedwiki.

Invite doers over. Tell those doers to invite other doers other.

Make it invite-only. Or don’t.

Make it a sleepover. Or don’t.

Checkout the FooCamp wiki for some best practices if you’re going to do this. Or don’t.

I suggest we call it DoCamp to get the point of the event across. I think of it as an Earth Day for doers.

Update: I registered docamp.org if anyone needs to use it. I’m sure someone will register foobarcamp.org as an alternative too. Then there is always doocamp.org. I am unfortunately obsessed with domain name variants right now…