2 date:
2009-
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3 slug: community-leadership-summit-july-
18-
19th-
2009-san-jose-ca
4 title: Community Leadership Summit - July
18-
19th
2009, San Jose, CA.
9 [](http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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