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3date: 2009-04-14 09:53:24+00:00
4slug: community-leadership-summit-july-18-19th-2009-san-jose-ca
5title: Community Leadership Summit - July 18-19th 2009, San Jose, CA.
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12[Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor
13for which I have a lot of respect, known to many for his work as
14[Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com)'s Community Manager is one of the people behind
15arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing
16people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration
17and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group
18Advisory Board very well and I for one shall be attending.
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21> The goal is simple: if those passionate about building great communities can
22> get together to compare notes and discuss and debate these topics, we will
23> all benefit from better communities.
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25> The summit gathers together community managers, leaders and organizers as
26> well as the projects, organizations, commercial vendors, ISVs and others who
27> have an interest in building a strong and enabled community. The purpose of
28> the event is to get everyone together to talk about the many nuances of
29> building strong and effective community, such as governance, creating
30> collaborative environments, conflict resolution, transparency, open
31> infrastructure, social networking, commercial investment in community,
32> engineering vs. marketing approaches to community leadership and more.
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35You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's
36blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/)
37and of course, head over to the [conference
38website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up
39if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you!