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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 is Jono Bacon Consulting.

Conference History:

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

    Stand-Alone Talks:
    TBD

    Unconference Sessions:
    TBD

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

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

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