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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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| | 11 | [](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | [Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor |
| | 14 | for which I have a lot of respect, known to many for his work as |
| | 15 | [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com)'s Community Manager is one of the people behind |
| | 16 | arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing |
| | 17 | people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration |
| | 18 | and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group |
| | 19 | Advisory Board very well and I for one shall be attending. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | > The goal is simple: if those passionate about building great communities can |
| | 23 | > get together to compare notes and discuss and debate these topics, we will |
| | 24 | > all benefit from better communities. |
| | 25 | > |
| | 26 | > The summit gathers together community managers, leaders and organizers as |
| | 27 | > well as the projects, organizations, commercial vendors, ISVs and others who |
| | 28 | > have an interest in building a strong and enabled community. The purpose of |
| | 29 | > the event is to get everyone together to talk about the many nuances of |
| | 30 | > building strong and effective community, such as governance, creating |
| | 31 | > collaborative environments, conflict resolution, transparency, open |
| | 32 | > infrastructure, social networking, commercial investment in community, |
| | 33 | > engineering vs. marketing approaches to community leadership and more. |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's |
| | 37 | blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/) |
| | 38 | and of course, head over to the [conference |
| | 39 | website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up |
| | 40 | if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you! |
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