Tim O'Reilly, the father of FOO, has brought the model to Disney:
Mike Pusateri of Disney just sent me this email message:
"Yesterday we held our version of Foo Camp for internal Disney people. The Pooh Camp was a great success and will become an ongoing event. Thanks for your ideas and advice. You both really helped convince the organizing group that a conference like this could work. I am in your debt. Here are a few photos."
I'm glad to see that the FOO Camp style of conference worked for Disney. It's a great idea to bring people together for unstructured conferences, and I appreciate the way Disney reached out for advice.
Does this herald the coming of Barcamp Enterprise? Probably not, but it's great to see the multiple instantiations of the original idea continue to permutate.
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April 2, 2009 at 3:21 am
Upcoming Gig: Science Foo Camp 2009 « O’Really?
[...] The “Foo Camp” meeting format has been pioneered by O’Reilly (see When geeks go camping). In this context, “Foo” originally stood for “Friends Of O’Reilly“, but it is also a meaningless ‘placeholder word’ commonly used by computer programmers, rather like the term ‘X’ in algebra. The success of O’Reilly’s original technology Foo Camps has stimulated a wide range of similar events, from Science Foo Camp to Disney’s Pooh Camp. [...]