content/news/2009-04-14-community-leadership-summit-july-18-19th-2009-san-jose-ca.md

   1 author: christel
   2 date: 2009-04-14 09:53:24+00:00
   3 slug: community-leadership-summit-july-18-19th-2009-san-jose-ca
   4 title: Community Leadership Summit - July 18-19th 2009, San Jose, CA.
   5 category: community
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   8 [![](static/img/3432437765_914490f5e9.jpg)](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)
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  10 [Jono Bacon](http://jonobacon.org), one of my friends and a FOSS contributor
  11 for which I have a lot of respect, known to many for his work as
  12 [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com)'s Community Manager is one of the people behind
  13 arranging the Community Leadership Summit -- a conference aimed at bringing
  14 people from various projects together to look at cross project collaboration
  15 and such things. The conference complements freenode and the PDPC's Group
  16 Advisory Board very well and I for one shall be attending.
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  18
  19 > The goal is simple: if those passionate about building great communities can
  20 > get together to compare notes and discuss and debate these topics, we will
  21 > all benefit from better communities.
  22 >
  23 > The summit gathers together community managers, leaders and organizers as
  24 > well as the projects, organizations, commercial vendors, ISVs and others who
  25 > have an interest in building a strong and enabled community. The purpose of
  26 > the event is to get everyone together to talk about the many nuances of
  27 > building strong and effective community, such as governance, creating
  28 > collaborative environments, conflict resolution, transparency, open
  29 > infrastructure, social networking, commercial investment in community,
  30 > engineering vs. marketing approaches to community leadership and more.
  31
  32
  33 You can read the rest of that over at [Jono's
  34 blog](http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/)
  35 and of course, head over to the [conference
  36 website](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), check it out and sign up
  37 if you can make it and it sounds like a good fit for you!