Comments on: BeeBCamp – what is it? http://rooreynolds.com/2008/10/27/beebcamp-what-is-it/ What's Next? Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:09:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mr Bill http://rooreynolds.com/2008/10/27/beebcamp-what-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-551557 Mr Bill Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:11:13 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1047#comment-551557 Bar camp - why didn't I think of that. Bar camp – why didn’t I think of that.

]]> By: kyb http://rooreynolds.com/2008/10/27/beebcamp-what-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-103094 kyb Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:16:16 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1047#comment-103094 What a horrible world unconference is. Conference comes from con (with/together) and ferre (carry), it suggests the carrying of burdens together. Like so much of English, it is a beautiful word, containing lots of information about our history and the way people have seen the world for generations. To stick an 'un' in front of it to signify that it's not led from the front is ridiculous etymologically. Will teams in University Challenge have to be sharply told not to 'unconfer'? Conference has always been about listening to each other, not about a single party setting the agenda. If anyone needs a different word to distinguish the two styles, let me suggest that the hierarchical, structured type is the one that receives the new name. Perhaps "Edictary", or following the Papal tradition a "Bull", or an "Apocalypse" (a revealing/unveiling). What a horrible world unconference is. Conference comes from con (with/together) and ferre (carry), it suggests the carrying of burdens together. Like so much of English, it is a beautiful word, containing lots of information about our history and the way people have seen the world for generations.

To stick an ‘un’ in front of it to signify that it’s not led from the front is ridiculous etymologically. Will teams in University Challenge have to be sharply told not to ‘unconfer’?

Conference has always been about listening to each other, not about a single party setting the agenda. If anyone needs a different word to distinguish the two styles, let me suggest that the hierarchical, structured type is the one that receives the new name. Perhaps “Edictary”, or following the Papal tradition a “Bull”, or an “Apocalypse” (a revealing/unveiling).

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