The fruits of FOO
There's some bitterness around the blogosphere fueled by people who didn't get invited to FOO Camp this year. There's even an alternate camp called Bar Camp formed by people upset about either not getting invited back or who weren't invited in the first place (well duh, autocratic structures breed resentment).
That aside, I took a few minutes to dig around the blog posts of past FOO attendees and noticed a theme: Lots of excitement, lots of interesting discussion, and lots of fun but I was left with one question:
Where are the fruits of FOO? None of the ideas I've heard about over the past 2 FOO Camps seemed to make it into any products, demos, specs, or code that I've seen. They seemed to fall into a black hole.
Are there worthwhile ideas coming out of FOO Camp? Definitely. For example: Greg Stein's idea to use the Vary header to make a backwards-compatible way of dramatically reducing the cost of fetching site feeds for clients smart enough to implement it.
So how can the participants of FOO Camp make sure their delightfully cross-pollinated ideas escape this fate? They should figure that out at this year's FOO Camp.
posted by Steve Jenson at 9:00 PM
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Fruits of FOO are an increase in the number of werewolf players in the world!
Or less ridiculously I don't have the long view on FOO yet, but drawing on experience from similar events the effects show up 6/12/18 months later on projects that hadn't even been concieved at the time of FOO camp, but rely on the new social networks built.
Lastly Microformats seem to making their way into the world, which very explicitly came out of FOO camp. They not seem sexy, but I think they're going to be our worse is better semweb.
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