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This is a wiki. Anyone who has registered can edit! Background   A while back, http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">Heather Ford and http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">Justin Spratt were having a chat about IS Labs -- an initiative by Internet Solutions that challenges people to submit ideas to make the internet better in South Africa. We started talking about different ways to support innovation in the space, and thought that it might be interesting to replicate the IS Labs platform in a face-to-face event where we got together some of the most creative Internet minds together to talk about just that. And so the 'Geek Retreat' was born.  We're hoping that this will become an annual event and that we invite new people every year who will inject the South African internet space with new ideas about how we can make the community more diverse, more innovative and globally competitive. Inspirations 1. The Tacticaltech source camps are some of the most incredible gatherings for the global non-profit technology community. "Take a mix of over a hundred non-profit workers and hi-quality techies, add a dash of a holiday and tonnes of hard work. Keep them on an island or isolated from the city for a week. What you get is a http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">Source Camp, http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">Tactical Tech-style." We subscribe to many of their ideals and practices as expressed http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">here.  2. The O'Reilly FOO Camp is another inspiration for the geek retreat. It's described on Wikipedia as '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.' 3. And of course, the http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">iSummits, organised by the very team here in South Africa who now occupy the http://geekretreat.wik.is/skins/fiesta/rustic-azure/icon_external.gif); background-position: 100% 0%; ">African Commons Project space.