The Details

Overview:
Building on the tremendous success of the original ATO/CLS partnership in 2020, the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) will once again be held in conjunction with All Things Open in 2021.

About CLS
The Community Leadership Summit 2021 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.

What: Community Leadership Summit 2021.
When: Monday, October 18, 2021
Where: Virtual/Online
Registration: Those interested can register in Eventbrite. Choose the CLS option.
Cost: Free to attend.

The following were topics in 2020. More of the same will be featured in October. 

• Fostering and Mentoring New Community Leaders
  I​n this discussion we will explore how to identify, foster, and support the success of new community leaders. Not everyone in a community will be a naturally leader, and often great leadership can come from unexpected places. We would love to hear your ideas of how to foster leadership, provide guidance, best practice, mentoring, and more. 
  
• How to Create a Sustainable Community
  Many communities struggle to support themselves, either with enough contributors, or with generating enough money to support infrastructure, travel, merchandise, and other costs. In this session we want to discuss how to build truly sustainable communities. What should we focus on most? How should we generate resources and how do we effectively manage them? 
  
• Planning and Running Online and In-Person Events
  With the rise of COVID-19, all communities have had to adapt to virtual events. How though, do you run an amazing in-person or virtual event? What kind of content, speakers, facilities, and other elements do you need? How do you coordinate your resources in the most effective way, and what are the landmines we should avoid? This is what we want to dig into in this discussion. Bring the knowledge!
  
• Connecting Community/DevRel Teams to Other Teams
  Community and Developer Relations teams have a unique blend of knowledge, and we can only be successful if we interface with other teams such as Marketing, Engineering, Support, and Customer Success well. How do we do this though? How do we build great relationships, solid alliances, share information effectively, and collaborate on projects? 
  
• Building Diverse Teams and Projects
  Diversity is critical to building amazing communities and open source projects. In this session we want to focus on two key areas: (1) how to build a community of diverse people and skills, and (2) how to enable a community to build a diverse range of projects that solve various problems. 
  
• Measuring Community Health
  Communities are notoriously difficult ​t​o measure because they combine tangible and intangible value. Possibly the most critical question though is, “Is our community healthy?” In this session we want to dig into what “healthy” means and what we need to measure to truly understand community health.
  
• How to Build Amazing Incentives and Rewards
  We know that human beings are motivated by incentives and rewards such as recognition, swag, and more, but how do we do it well? In this session we want to share and explore incentives and rewards that work and don’t work, and explore new and interesting ways to encourage active community participation.