<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Apr 18, 2009, at 9:17 PM, daniel gomez wrote:</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Pero la palabra desconferencia me suena mucho como a pose artsy mas que a algo útil. Es mi manera de verlo porque desafortunadamente no he atendido a ninguna desconferencia programada. Todo esto me sabe como a esnobismno a no ser que me prueben lo contrario. </blockquote><br></div><div>no creo que tenga nada que ver con un movimiento de arte lo de unconferences... son bien parecidas a un hackmeeting donde cada persona enseña lo que sabe.. puede ser cualquier eventos auto organizado.</div><div><br></div><div>esta bien que veas el esnobismo y te cuides de caer en su economia, pero poner el pre-fijo al juicio es tal vez la manera mas facil para frenarse a uno mismo.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><b>Foo Camp</b> is an annual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computing)" title="Hacker (computing)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">hacker</a> event hosted by publisher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Media" title="O'Reilly Media" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">O'Reilly Media</a>. O'Reilly describes it as "the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule. The goal of the event is to reach out to new people who will increase the company's intelligence about new technologies, and to create opportunities for cross-fertilization between people and technologies that are on the O'Reilly radar.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Some have described it as a meta-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_(computing)" title="Birds of a Feather (computing)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">birds-of-a-feather</a> session, that gets smart people together to discuss technology issues. This style of event has also been described as an<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference" title="Unconference" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-position: initial initial; ">unconference</a>.</div></span></div></div></div></body></html>