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The Community Leadership Summit (CLS), co-located with the All Things Open Conference (ATO), brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. Leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration will discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community. CLS will feature moderated and facilitated discussions (unconference), as well as a number of prescheduled stand-alone talks (lightning talks) on multiple community-focused topics vital to the health and ongoing sustainability of open source.

In addition to the CLS, a “Community Track” is organized at ATO since 2016.

From 2009-2018 CSL was colocated with the Open Source Software Conference (OSCON). After a break and an unoffficial Community Managers Gathering at OSCON in 2019 it is now co-located with the All Things Open Conference (ATO) since 2020. From 2010-2013 a complementary Community Leadership Summit West (CLS West) was organized in California at the US west coast.

Main CLS organizer and emcee is Jono Bacon Consulting.

Conference History:

16th CLS 2025, October 12, 2025, Raleigh, NC, USA

Unconference Sessions:
TBD

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 12-14

Sessions TBD

15th CLS 2024, October 27, 2024, Raleigh, NC, USA

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 27-29

Keynotes:
Reshaping the landscape of belonging to transform community
The Community That Developers Built:!

Community Track:
From Fork to Foundation: How the OpenSearch project crafted a journey to open collaboration
Demonstrating Allyship to Women+ in Open Source
2 for 1: Thriving on a Budget: Success with a ‘Community of Everywhere’ Approach / TBA
Open Source Sustainability & Philanthropy: Building Contributor Communities
How you write matters in open source
Change is in Our Bones
2 for 1: Accelerating Your Career with Open Source and AI / Empowering Community Engagement: Turning Enthusiasm into Action
How To (Contribute to) Open Source
Importance of mentorship in OSS communities

14th CLS 2023, October 15, 2023, Raleigh, NC, USA

Stand-Alone Talks:
—

Unconference Sessions:
n.a

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 15-17

Keynotes:
The Power of Community

Community Track:
How to Design a Data-Driven Culture
2 for 1: Open Source Insights from 11,000 Early Career Technologists/Which Technical Practices Naturally Foster a Culture of Trust and Accountability?
Are we Stewards or are we Sovereigns?
Be Nice In The Sandbox: How Open Source Gets Competitors to Collaborate
Project Sputnik and the Five Lessons Learned – Leveraging the power of the community to drive Innovation at a Large Company
Community First: Using ChatGPT to Build Strong Open Source Communities
2 for 1: Using the Open Leadership Assessment Project to Learn About Your Open Leadership Style/Three Cups of Java
Given the Choices We Have: The Power of Allyship

13th CLS 2022, October 31, 2022, Raleigh, NC, USA

Stand-Alone Talks:
The Code of Conduct has been Broken. Now What?
Architecting Inclusive Developer Communities
Every Non-technical End-user (NTEU) *Is* Someone’s Guru
5 Tips to Prevent and Survive Burnout

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 30 – Nov 2

Community Track:
2 for 1: Modern Community Management: A lesson through acronym / Inclusive Design: Advancing Inclusivity Through Accessibility
Approaching Open Source Documentation the Right Way
Lessons Learned Leading an OSS Diversity Team
The 10,000 Steps of Open Source Project Health
Going Beyond Code – Why All Contributions Matter in Open Source
Action Packed Community: Streamline and Automate Community Management with GitHub
Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-up
2 for 1: Project Analysis Day 1: Finding your project in a jumble of data / The Secret to Sustainable Open Source
How Do You Know if Your Project Is Any Good?
How to Talk About Your Open Source Project So People Get It

Panel – Successful Community Management in Open Source

Other Tracks:
It Takes a Community to Craft an Experience
2 for 1: The New OSS Community: Enabling for advocates not customers / Making Content Decisions Between Open Source and Enterprise Versions of a Software Product
Building an Enduring Open Source Community, Milestone by Milestone
Full Stack Developer Experience: Grow your developer community by building an open and easy to use platform
The Value of an Open Source Community: A Place Where — as Aristotle said — “Our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”

12th CLS 2021, October 19, 2020, Raleigh, NC, USA Virtual venue

Sessions:
Is there such a thing as Community ROI (and what is it)?
Diversity and Inclusion in Community in 2021
What does the Ideal Virtual Event look like?
When and how to Reward Great Contributions?

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 17-19

Community Track:
Community Repositories: Why You Need One for Your Open Source Projec
Community Platforms Shootout
Identify and Recognize your Most Valuable Contributors
Maintainers Listening Tour: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Getting Past Diversity to Inclusion
Open Source Community Engagement Best Practices and Health Checks
Thorny Problems in Open Source Community Management
Reducing Negative and Biased Language in Documentation
How to Burn out Developers and Alienate Contributors
Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Community
A Beginners Guide to Open Source Metrics and Analysis
Scaling Community Programs with Limited Resources

Other Tracks:
2 for 1: The Daimler FOSS Manifesto – Our Commitment to be truly Open/ Foundations of Community Leadership in Tech: IBMZ digital gender equality impact
2 for 1: Demystifying Microservices / Foundations of Community Leadership in Tech: IBMZ digital gender equality impact
Operate First Community: Learn, practice, and adapt from a live GitOps environment

11th CLS 2020, October 18, 2020, Raleigh, NC, USA Virtual venue

Sessions:
How to Create a Sustainable Community
Connecting Community/DevRel Teams to Other Teams
Building Diverse Teams and Projects
Measuring Community Health
Planning and Running Online and In-Person Events
How to Build Amazing Incentives and Rewards (panel and group discussion)
Fostering and Mentoring New Community Leaders
Creating a Healthy Community Culture

CLS Wrap Up and Moderator Summaries

Co-located Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 19-20

Community Track:
2 for 1: Humans of Open Source/Building Open Organizations
Selfish Contribution
Ensuring that Documentation is a First-class Citizen in Open Source Projects
Bottom-Up Open Source Culture
Fund Projects and Change Company Culture with a FOSS Fund
Communication Strategy for Open Source Projects, or How to get Engineers to Think About Comms Channels

Other Tracks:
Salesforce Focuses on Building Open Source Community
Over a Decade of Building an Open Source Community in Asia
Open Source Collective: The Business of Open Community
LibreOffice 10th Anniversary: the many faces of a global FOSS community
How India can Contribute to the Global OSS Community
The OpenStreetMap Project = Data + Community

Community Managers Gathering, July 14, 2019, Portland, OR, USA

Note: Community Management Conference before OSCON – an unofficial community manager gathering. The official CLS is taking a year off and will return in 2020.

Keynotes:
Strategies to Balance the Needs of the Company and the Community
What Sponsors want
From Purpose to Value and back again
Improving companies relationship with open source communities
Communtiy Marketing
Measuring DevRel Programs far beyond marketing activities
Growing a community through diversity and inclusion metrics

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 15-18

Associated Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 13-15, Raleigh, NC, USA

Community Track:
Onboarding Open Source Contributors: Frame of mind and inclusion
2-for-1: Community Metrics: More than the sum of its parts / Does Your Open Source Work Need a Third Place?
Burnout and Balance
Not Your Average Mentoring Talk
2-for-1: Rewriting the Docs!: Field notes from the radical IT department / Why and How to Plan an Awesome Meetup
Gender, Poverty, and Race in Technology
Passing the Baton: Succession planning for FOSS leadership
Craft as in Beer: The Value of Community
Demystifying Distributed Work: Tips and tools for modern teams
Sick of Silos? Git busy and create cross-functional teams by launching open source programs in your organization
Breaking Into Tech: From The Trenches
Convergence of Communities

Other Tracks:
Divergence and Convergence in the Open Source Blockchain Community
The Power of Community (Screening of the Film Progress; Discussion with the Producer; Discussion Groups)

10th CLS 2018, July 14-15, 2018, Portland, OR, USA

Keynotes:
Introduction and Keynote
The Departmental Lens: Community Management Across Team Lines
TBA (7)

Unconference Sessions:
Handling Big Changes
Marketing Open Source
Preventing Presentation Paralysis
Growing Healthy Communities, Inside The Firewall
Creating a Maker Culture in a Software Company
Psychological Safety in Communities: Strategies for Better Engagement
Code of Conduct Enforcement
Creating good documentation
How to optimize real-time communication in OSS and Community
Transforming Support Communities
Where do Community Managers retire?
The Maintenance Mode Concept
Beyond Fiscal Sponsors
Asking for time and/or money
Establishing Metrics that Matter for Diversity & Inclusion
The Nth Pull Request: Encouraging Intermediate Contributors
Open Source Educational Outreach and Student Engagement
Nurturing Global Meetups
There’s No Place Like Home: How Do We Provide Organizational Homes to FLOSS Communities?
Tools, techniques, approaches – how to manage conflict

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 16-19

Associated Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 21-23, Raleigh, NC, USA

Community Track:
How to Grow (or Save) Your Favorite Open Source Project
Marketing Your Open Source Project
The 10 Commandments of Community Organizing
Challenges to the Open Source Model Today
Survive and Advance: The Life of a Community Manager
Managing Conflict in Open Source Communities
Developing Open Source Liturgies: Maintainer Considerations for Projects at Scale
If There Are No Metrics, Did It Even Happen? Tracking Open Source Contributions at Comcast
Using Content Strategy to Improve OSS Documentation
Beyond the Code: Open Governance and Scalable Distributed Decision-Making

Other Tracks:
Building Open Source Communities for AWS Serverless Developer Tools
How to Build a Huge Open Source Community (Without Being a Total Sellout)

9th CLS 2017, May 6-7, 2017, Austin, TX, USA

Keynotes:
Introduction and Keynote
5 Keys to a Successful Top Contributor Program
How to successfully run a community publication
Community Metrics are a Trojan Horse for Real Relationships
Organizing World Class Events
Ask Not What Your Community Can Do For You
All Contributions Welcome
5 things I wish I knew before I became a community organizer
Open source as a social movement

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), May 8-11

Associated Conferences:
All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 23-24, Raleigh, NC, USA

Community Track:
Putting the ‘Open’ in Open Source Events
Tech Communities as Fandoms
Fundraising (and Spending) for Diversity
Maintainers don’t Scale
The Trouble with FreeBSD
Organizing a Meetup over Many Years
Communication: The Key to Cultivating a Collaborative Community
What the FOSS Community can Learn from 80s Television
What Open Source and J.K. Rowling have in Common

Other Tracks:
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Community Organizer

8th CLS 2016, May 14-15, 2016, Austin, TX, USA

Keynotes:
Leading an Open Source Project With Joomla!
Tech Communities as Fandoms
Culture First, Tools Last: Building Inner Source Communities
Running a Large Forum: Lessons From The Frontline
Communities and Games
Occupational Hazard
Secrets To Growing A Global Community
“How do I fit into this community?” and Imposter Syndrome

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

FLOSS Metrics Sessions:
Shaping Predictable Metrics
A Maturity Model for Embracing Open Source Software
Education and guidance on governance and branding issues for communities
Analyzing Open Source communities with GrimoireLab, an open toolkit for Open Development Analytics
…n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), May 16-19

All Things Open Conference (ATO), Oct 26-27, Raleigh, NC, USA

Community Track:
Engaging Open Source Community in Quality Assurance
Maintaining Open Source While Maintaining Your Sanity
Building Open Source Communities
Maximizing Open Source Communities
Building a Community Exoskeleton
The Impact of Licenses on Software Quality
Open Source Social – Finding Your Competitive Advantage in Community
How To Win Friends and Influence In The Open Source Community!

Panel Discussion: How to be more open, collaborative, and inclusive at work

Other Tracks:
Community & Commercialization: How to Build an OpenSource Company in 2016
Student Pipeline to Open Source Communities using HFOSS
How Companies can Effectively Work with Open Source Communities
Community-Powered Innovation for Modern Application Development

7th CLS 2015, July 18-19, 2015, Portland, OR, USA

Keynotes:
The Community Revolution Is Here

Plenaries:
Building communities: the business value of human kindness (and being really, really, ridiculously organized)
Holding Space: The Art of Creating Vulnerable Communities
The Empathy Algorithm: Understanding Empathy as a measurable outcome
Facilitation 101
10 Social Psychology Hacks To Ignite Unparalleled Levels Of Member Participation
How to keep your marketing team happy
Open Source Governance Models Revisited
Making it Easy for Professors to Work with Open Source Communities

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

FLOSS Community Metrics Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 20-24

6th CLS 2014, July 18-19, 2014, Portland, OR, USA

Keynotes:
How to use analytics to improve responsiveness in community management
TBC (2)
Building Exponential Communities

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Lightning Talks:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 20-24

5th CLS 2013, July 20-21, 2013, Portland, OR, USA

Keynotes:
Fundraising 101
Creative Entrepreneurship – Approaches to Community from the Creative Industries
Community management – A Balancing Act
Managing Community Change

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Lightning Talks:
n.a.

Bonus Session:
Event Content Hacking, Jul 22

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 22-26

4th CLS West 2013, February 2, 2013 eBay, San Jose, CA, USA

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

4th CLS 2012, July 14-15, 2012, Portland, OR, USA

Plenary:
Rebuilding Downtown with Jam in Jubilee
Growing Event Attendance
Assholes are killing your project
Open Source Consultants UNITE!
Gamification Of Community
Project Managing a Community Project
Community is Universal: The Formation of a Crisis Community
Socializing Effective Community Management Across Organizations
What community leaders can learn from the community organizing movement.

Unconference Sessions:
…

Lightning Talks:
RIPE Atlas, an Internet measuring network based on small probes hosted by the community
Your job title is killing us: Why wacky job titles are hurting our industry
Civic Hacker Nation: building a volunteer community so anyone can code for America
‘The Value of Virtual Silence’
…?

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 16-20

3rd CLS West 2012, January 14, 2012, eBay, San Jose, CA, USA

Unconference Sessions:
…

Co-located Events:
1st Thursday Silicon Valley Online Community/Social Media meetup

3rd CLS 2011, July 23-24, 2011, Portland, OR, USA

Plenary:
n.a.

Unconference Sessions:
…

Lightning Talks:
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware – An open source platform to support/organize your communities
MofuMobi – A mobile platform for customized, dynamic applications
Splitting off subgroups (aka How to keep everyone happy)
OS-Independent PDA Tool
Your job title is killing us: Why wacky job titles are hurting our industry
A Look at Cooperatives
…?

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 25-29

2nd CLS West 2011, January 15, 2011, DeVry University, Daly City, CA, USA

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

2nd CLS 2010, July 17-18, 2010, Portland, OR, USA

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Lightning Talks:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 19-23

1st CLS West 2010, January 9, 2010, DeVry University, Daly City, CA, USA

Theme: We Are Family

Unconference Sessions:
n.a.

Associated Conferences:
CLS West Ingite, January 9, 2010, Google, San Frabcisco, CA, USA

Ingite Talks:
Befriending a Corporate Giant
Ann Winblad: What’s in a name?
Social Media for the Uncomfortable
Start a Community Event: Ready, Set, Go.
Program for the Future: CoLABoration 2010
Extending your community from web to social ecosystem
Social Alchemy – How to grow a community from 5 to 5,000
Keys to Success as a Volunteer Organization
The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors
Green Software – Case Studies and Opportunities for You and the Planet
The Unpanel – One way to get your unconference started
We are not at WAR! How the Identity Community is Collaborating in 2010

1st CLS 2009, JUly 18-19, 2009, San Jose, CA, USA

Unconference Sessions:
…

Lightning Talks:
n.a.

Co-located Conferences:
Open Source Software Conference (OSCON), Jul 20-24