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Re:At the Mars conference, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, As... by dekhn on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:41AM (#16649039)
This sounds pretty similar to SciFoo, which is an annual unconference inspired by FooCamp. SciFoo is held at Google, and refers to the attendees as "campers". It often has cool science demos, telescope parties, etc. I would guess MARS was influenced by SciFoo and FooCamp and probably even has an overlap in the attendees.
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Re:At the Mars conference, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, As... by gumby on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:26PM (#16650093)
It is just like a SciFoo (well, not the cigars bit)! And in fact I submitted it under a title along the lines of "Bezos' private unconference" but the title was edited -- perhaps "unconference" is not a familiar term?
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