Science Foo Camp, also known as SciFoo, is a series of interdisciplinary scientific conferences organized by O'Reilly Media (FOO stands for "Friends of O'Reilly") and Nature Publishing Group. According to Tim O'Reilly it was Linda Stone's idea.[1] It is based on the spirit and format of Foo Camp, an unconference focused on emerging technology, and is designed to encourage collaboration between scientists who would not typically work together. As such, it is particularly unusual among scientific conferences in three ways; it is invitation-only, the invitees come from many different areas of science rather than one subject (such as physics, chemistry or biology), and the meeting has no fixed agenda; the invited scientists, technologists and policy makers set the conference program during the conference itself, based on their shared professional interests and enthusiasms. The first event in 2006 was held under the Chatham House Rule (meaning that what is said at the conference cannot be attributed to any one person). The policy at the second event was to allow open reporting by default; attendees were expected to indicate if their comments were off the record.
Science Foo Camp takes place annually on the Google campus in Mountain View, California. It is organized by Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, Timo Hannay of Nature and Chris DiBona of Google The event has taken place four times:
- The first meeting was held in August 2006.[2]
- August 2007[3]
- August 2008[4][5]
- July 2009[6]
A 12-minute YouTube video made at SciFoo 2009 is available.
References
- ^ O'Reilly, Tim (2009-03-24). "It's Always Ada Lovelace Day at O'Reilly". http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/ada-lovelace-day-at-oreilly.html. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ Hannay, Timo (2006-09-04). "SciFoo review". http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/09/scifoo_review_1.html. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ Hendler, James (2007-08-06). "Science FOO Camp 2007 (Scifoo 07)". http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/08/06/science-foo-camp-2007-scifoo-07/. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- ^ Wilczek, Frank (2008-09-03). "A Slice of SciFoo". http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/scifoo08/scifoo08_index.html. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- ^ Gilbey, John (2008-10-02). "Antimatter and antipasta at the anti-conference". Times Higher Education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=403752. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
- ^ Clarke, Michael (2009-07-11). "Sci Foo Camp – Day 1". http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/11/sci-foo-camp-day-1/. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
See also
External links
- http://www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/
- http://www.nature.com/scifoo/ Nature SciFoo aggregator
- Back To Silicon Valley's Future - Forbes, August 11, 2006
- Foo's Paradise (Nature editorial on SciFoo 2006) Nature 442, 848 (24 August 2006). Published online 23 August 2006.
- Scifoo Was Scifood for the Brain
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