What are conference BOFs

I’m just looking at the schedule for the Scotland on Rails conference that I’m attending next month.

The schedule says

17:30 – 22:00 Conference venue remains open for BOFs etc.

I had no idea what “BOFs” are, so I looked it up on Wikipedia:

• Buffer Overflow, a type of exploit for certain software bugs
• Balls of Fury, a comedy film
• Balls on Face, or Teabagging, a sexual act
• Balls on Fire
• Baptism of Fire, a soldier’s first experience under fire in battle
• Basic Oxygen Furnace, a furnace used in steel production
• Battalions of Fear, the debut album of Blind Guardian
• beginning of file, the computing term. See also end-of-file
• Best of Five, a question format commonly used in british medical exams
• Best of Friends, Sarah B & Anthony C (see also Baof)
• Biography of Ferns, the Seattle indie band
• Birds of a Feather (disambiguation)
• Board of Finance, a body that reviews local government budgets in USA
• Body-on-frame, an automobile construction technique.
• Boring old fart a term used to describe someone who does not interest you
• The chemical formula of boron oxyfluoride
• Breath of Fire, a video game series
• British Orienteering Federation, the running sport involving navigation with a map and compass

Well, I’m glad that cleared that up! 😉

Some of those suggestions just sound scary.