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author: christel
date: 2009-04-14 09:53:24+00:00
slug: community-leadership-summit-july-18-19th-2009-san-jose-ca
title: Community Leadership Summit - July 18-19th 2009, San Jose, CA.
category: community
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[![](static/img/3432437765_914490f5e9.jpg)](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)

[Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor
for which I have a lot of respect, known to many for his work as
[Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com)'s Community Manager is one of the people behind
arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing
people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration
and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group
Advisory Board very well and I for one shall be attending.


> The goal is simple: if those passionate about building great communities can
> get together to compare notes and discuss and debate these topics, we will
> all benefit from better communities.
>
> The summit gathers together community managers, leaders and organizers as
> well as the projects, organizations, commercial vendors, ISVs and others who
> have an interest in building a strong and enabled community. The purpose of
> the event is to get everyone together to talk about the many nuances of
> building strong and effective community, such as governance, creating
> collaborative environments, conflict resolution, transparency, open
> infrastructure, social networking, commercial investment in community,
> engineering vs. marketing approaches to community leadership and more.


You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's
blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/)
and of course, head over to the [conference
website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up
if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you!
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	4	title: Community Leadership Summit - July 18-19th 2009, San Jose, CA.
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951245ff	9	[![](static/img/3432437765_914490f5e9.jpg)](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)
849bdd6f	10
951245ff EK	11	[Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor
	12	for which I have a lot of respect, known to many for his work as
	13	[Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com)'s Community Manager is one of the people behind
	14	arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing
	15	people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration
	16	and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group
	17	Advisory Board very well and I for one shall be attending.
849bdd6f	18
34876803	19
951245ff EK	20	> The goal is simple: if those passionate about building great communities can
	21	> get together to compare notes and discuss and debate these topics, we will
	22	> all benefit from better communities.
	23	>
	24	> The summit gathers together community managers, leaders and organizers as
	25	> well as the projects, organizations, commercial vendors, ISVs and others who
	26	> have an interest in building a strong and enabled community. The purpose of
	27	> the event is to get everyone together to talk about the many nuances of
	28	> building strong and effective community, such as governance, creating
	29	> collaborative environments, conflict resolution, transparency, open
	30	> infrastructure, social networking, commercial investment in community,
	31	> engineering vs. marketing approaches to community leadership and more.
849bdd6f SB	32
849bdd6f SB	33
951245ff EK	34	You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's
	35	blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/)
	36	and of course, head over to the [conference
	37	website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up
	38	if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you!