As many of you will know, I organize an event every year called the [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/). The event brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community.
The event kicks off this week on Thursday evening (17th July) with a pre-CLS gathering at the Doubletree Hotel at 7.30pm, and then we get started with the main event on Friday (18th July) and Saturday (19th July). For more details, see [https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/).
This year’s event is shaping up to be incredible. We have a [fantastic list of registered attendees](https://communityleadershipsummit.com/attendees/) and I want to thank our sponsors, [O’Reilly](https://oreilly.com/), [Citrix](https://www.citrix.com/), [Oracle](https://www.oracle.com), [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org), [Ubuntu](https://www.ubuntu.com), and [LinuxFund](https://linuxfund.org/).
Also, be sure to join the new [Community Leadership Forum](https://www.communityleadershipforum.com/) for discussing topics that relate to community management, as well as topics for discussion at the Community Leadership Summit event each year. The forum is designed to be a great place for sharing and learning tips and techniques, getting to know other community leaders, and having fun.
The forum is powered by [Discourse](https://discourse.org/), so it is a pleasure to use, and I want to thank [discoursehosting.com](https://discoursehosting.com/) for generously providing free hosting for us.
## Speaking Events and Training at OSCON
I also have a busy [OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2014) schedule. Here is the summary:
### Community Management Training
On **Monday 21st July from 9am – 6pm in D135** I will be providing a full day of [community management training at OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34247). This full day of training will include topics such as
* The Core Mechanics Of Community
* Planning Your Community
* Building a Strategic Plan
* Building Collaborative Workflow
* Defining Community Governance
* Marketing, Advocacy, Promotion, and Social Media
* Measuring Your Community
* Tracking and Measuring Community Management
* Conflict Resolution
### Dealing With Disrespect
On **Tues 22nd July at 10.40am in Expo Hall A** I will be providing an [Office Hours Meeting](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37042) in which you can come and ask me about:
* Building collaborative workflow and tooling
* Conflict resolution and managing complex personalities
* Building buzz and excitement around your community
* Incentivized prizes and innovation
* Hiring community managers
* Anything else!
### Office Hours
Finally, on **Wed 23rd July at 2.30pm in E144** I will be giving a [presentation called Dealing With Disrespect](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34248?cmp=tw-prog-confreg-info-os14_tweet_general) that is based upon my [free book of the same name for managing complex communications](https://dealingwithdisrespect.com/).
This is the summary of the talk:
> In this new presentation from Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community, founder of the Community Leadership Summit, and Ubuntu Community Manager, he discusses how to process, interpret, and manage rude, disrespectful, and non-constructive feedback in communities so the constructive criticism gets through but the hate doesn’t.
> The presentation covers the three different categories of communications, how we evaluate and assess different attributes in each communication, the factors that influence all of our communications, and how to put in place a set of golden rules for handling feedback and putting it in perspective.
> If you personally or your community has suffered rudeness, trolling, and disrespect, this presentation is designed to help.
I will also be available for discussions and meetings. Just drop me an email at [email protected] if you want to meet.
I hope to see many of you in Portland this week!
