Foo East
This article is a stub. You can help the IndieWeb wiki by expanding it with relevant information.
Foo East was a US East Coast Foo Camp (AKA Foo Camp East, hashtag #fooeast) in 2009 and 2010, hosted by O’Reilly Media at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development (N.E.R.D.) Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where microformats2 (a key IndieWeb building block) was first proposed.
Sections for individual event instances, newest first:
2010
2010-04-30 to 2010-05-02.
IndieWeb Community Attendees:
- Chris Messina
Tantek Çelik — led/facilitated two discussion sessions:
- 2010-05-01 11:00 "Technologies from a parallel universe" culture evolution, alternate timelines
- 2010-05-02 "Microformats 2.0: how can we make them even simpler?" — a session that explored using lessons learned from microformats to evolve microformats into a proposal for microformats2
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
microformats2 session
- microformats wiki: microformats 2.0 discussion
Photos of the session:
- https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/5156692985
- https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/5156693587
- https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/5157303078
Posts from or about the session:
- https://twitter.com/spangledrongo/statuses/13253300577
- "@t 1.88 billion hCards on the web. #microformats #fooeast" @spangledrongo May 2, 2010
- https://twitter.com/chrismessina/statuses/13253365342
- ""Microformats 2.0: how can we make them even simpler?" @t leading the discussion. #fooeast post.ly/eWP0" @chrismessina May 2, 2010
- https://twitter.com/digiphile/status/13253379399
- "Learning about microformats from @t. Markup that adds meta data to the Web: http://microformats.org 1.88B hCards now. #fooeast" @digiphile May 2, 2010
- 2010-05-02: https://tantek.com/2010/122/t2/microformats-2-simpler-publishing-parsing
shared thoughts on microformats 2.0 in person. http://ufs.cc/w/e/45X
even simpler publishing and parsing. wanna discuss? http://ufs.cc/w/e/45Z- POSSE tweet: https://twitter.com/t/status/13286409030
2010 posts
- 2010-05-01 A tale of two conferences: FOO and ROFLcon (Internet Archive link, original http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/05/01/a-tale-of-two-conferences-foo-and-roflcon/ 404 since 2025-08)
- 2010-05-03 Dinner With Tim O'Reilly At 27,000 Feet And Notes From Foo East
- 2010-05-06 Foo East: Neither Decadent Nor Depraved
- ...
Photos:
- https://flickr.com/photos/tags/fooeast2010
- Rob Bole’s photos tagged #foocamp (all from 2010, despite their captions stating "Foo Camp East 2009 (n)" where n is 1…23
Saturday session grid:
- https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/5146001005
- https://flickr.com/photos/tantek/5146001505
- https://flickr.com/photos/bolevasse/4734004959 (blurry but shows overview across the two sets of rooms)
Sunday session grid:
- ??? (needs photos)
Tweets with hashtag #fooeast made in the year 2010:
2009
This section is a stub. You can help the IndieWeb wiki by expanding it.
2009-03-27 to 2009-03-29.
IndieWeb Community Attendees:
- Chris Messina (appears in numerous Flickr photos)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Photos:
- https://flickr.com/photos/tags/fooeast2009 (very few tagged this, as this was the first, see the generic fooeast tag for more.
- Erik (HASH) Hersman FooEast 2009 photo album
- Gina Trapani FOO East photo album
- Katia London fooeast 2009 photo album
- reedster Foo East 2009 photo album
- Jyri’s tag:fooeast photos (he only went in 2009)
- ...
Session grids:
- ... needs photo
Tweets with hashtag #fooeast made in the year 2009:
