Science Foo Camp

From Wikipedia:

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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. 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 difference 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.

Thus far, SciFoo has been hosted by Google at the Googleplex. The event has taken place three times:

1. The first meeting was held in August 2006.
2. August 2007
3. August 2008

Science Foo 2009 will be July 10-12, 2009 at the Googleplex^"