As some of you will know, I founded the [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) that takes place in Portland, Oregon every year. The event brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. Each year we discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community, structured in a set of presentation and attendee-driven unconference sessions.

This year’s event is happening on **18th – 19th July 2014** (the two days before [OSCON](https://oscon.com/)), and is shaping up to be a great event. We have [over 180 people registered already](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/attendees/), with a diverse and wide-ranging set of attendees. The event is free to attend, you just need to [register](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/register/) first. We hope to see you there!

In a few weeks though we have an additional sister-event to the main Community Leadership Summit at the [Open Source Think Tank](https://www.osthinktank.com/events/open-source-think-tank-spring-2014/event-summary-bafe74fefce34c9a8dcbef90bc8cab20.aspx).

The *Community Leadership Summit* and *Open Source Think Tank* have partnered to create a unique event designed for *executives and managers involved in community management planning and strategic development*. While the normal annual Community Leadership Summit serves practicing community managers and leaders well, this unique event is designed to be very focused on *executives in a strategic leadership position* to understand the value and process of building a community.

I have been wanting to coordinate a strategic leadership event such as this for some time, and the Think Tank is the perfect venue; it brings together executives across a wide range of Open Source organizations, and I will be delivering the Community Leadership Summit track as a key part of the event on the first day.

The event takes place on **24th March 2014** in Napa, California. See the [event homepage for more details](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/about/thinktank-cls/) – I hope to see you there!

The track is shaping up well. We will have keynote sessions, break-out groups discussing gamification, metrics, hiring community managers, and more, a dedicated case study (based on a real organization with the identity anonymized) to exercise these skills and more.

If you want to join the Community Leadership Summit track at the Open Source Think Tank, please drop me an email as space is limited. I hope to see you there!