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 pulls together these leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community.
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/), and [LinuxFund](https://linuxfund.org/).
The event is taking place on **18 – 19 July 2014** in Portland, Oregon. I hope to see you all there, it is going to be a fantastic CLS this year!
I also have a few other things to share too…
## Community Leadership Forum
My goal as a community manager is to help contribute to the growth of the community management profession. I started this journey by publishing [The Art of Community](https://artofcommunityonline.org/) and ensuring it is available freely as well as in stores. I then set up the [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) as just discussed, and now I am keen to put together a central community for community management and leadership discussion.
As such, I am proud to launch 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.
Be sure to go and sign up!
## Speaking Events and Training
I also wanted to share that I will be at [OSCON]() this year and 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.
This presentation is on **Wed 23rd July at 2.30pm in E144**.
In addition to this I will also be providing a full day of [community management training at OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34247) on **Sunday 20th July in D135**.
I will also be providing full day community management training at [LinuxCon North America](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america) and [LinuxCon Europe](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe). More details of this to follow soon in a dedicated blog post.
Lots of fun things ahead and I hope to see you there!
