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Community Leadership Summit 2011 – A Few Weeks Away!

by | Fri 8 Jul 2011

Not long now until the [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/); an annual event designed to bring together community leaders and managers to share best practice, ideas, and solutions. The event is entirely **free** and takes place from **23rd – 24th July 2011** in **Portland, Oregon**. The event takes place the weekend immediately before [OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2011) in the same venue, the **Oregon Convention Center**.

To join us you need to register, and over **260** people have already registered from a [diverse range of organizations](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/attendees/) including *Mozilla, O’Reilly Media, Rackspace, Adobe, Partimus, Red Hat, Google, Portland State University, Open Affairs Television, Apache Software Foundation, Xen, Digium, IBM, Microsoft, CloudCamp, OpenSesame, Oregon State University Open Source Lab, Wikia, Eucalytpus, MySQL, MeeGo, Linaro, Oracle, Linux New Media, BitNami, SUSE, setiQuest, Webtrends, Alfresco, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, Open Source Bridge, OpenStack, Joomla!, Peace Markets, Infinity Curve, MoreThanGiving.com, TYPO3 Association*, and many more.


Awesome people having a rocking time and building stonking communities. What’s not to love?

If you are interested in community and building great community for your organization or project, be sure to come and join us. The event is an unconference, and as such the content and topics are driven by the attendees, which has resulted in a rich set of content and great best practice shared across many different disciplines.

I also want to offer my thanks to [O’Reilly](https://oreilly.com/), [Oracle](https://www.oracle.com/), [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/), [Ohloh](https://www.ohloh.net/), and [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/) for helping to support the event!

Interesting In Coming? Simple. Just go and [register](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/register/) (it is **free**) and feel free to [share some session ideas](https://communityleadershipsummit.wikia.com/wiki/2011/SessionIdeas) that you may want to see or run at CLS11.

## Scheduling Sessions

The CLS is an unconference, meaning everyone is welcome to volunteer a session while there. We start with a blank slate and then the audience put sessions up.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, **everyone who runs a session will get a free copy of my book, [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/)** as a thankyou for running a session.

If you are interested in running a session, we would love to see you plan your session with other attendees. To do go to the [CLS11 Wiki](https://communityleadershipsummit.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Leadership_Summit_Wiki) and share [session ideas](https://communityleadershipsummit.wikia.com/wiki/2011/SessionIdeas) and [lightning talks](https://communityleadershipsummit.wikia.com/wiki/2011/Lighting_Talks) for the event. Everyone is welcome to share ideas!

## Spreading The Word

CLS11 is shaping up to be an awesome event, but we could always do with more awareness so as many people can come along and meet people and learn and share ideas. Some ways in which you can help:

* Tweet about the event and be sure to use the `#cls11` hash tag.
* Join the [Facebook Event](https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196907063655463) for further updates.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

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