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2 | author: christel | |
3 | date: 2009-04-14 09:53:24+00:00 | |
4 | slug: community-leadership-summit-july-18-19th-2009-san-jose-ca | |
5 | title: Community Leadership Summit - July 18-19th 2009, San Jose, CA. | |
6 | category: community | |
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10 | [![](static/img/3432437765_914490f5e9.jpg)](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) | |
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12 | [Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor | |
13 | for 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 | |
15 | arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing | |
16 | people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration | |
17 | and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group | |
18 | Advisory 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. | |
24 | > | |
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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35 | You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's | |
36 | blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/) | |
37 | and of course, head over to the [conference | |
38 | website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up | |
39 | if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you! |