CLSxItaly: The Community Leadership Summit event is a reality

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CLSxItaly

Some months ago, I threw a stone in the pond: I launched the idea to organize an event focused on community management for the Italian tech community ecosystem. Something new for our country, never realized before, something I consider really helpful for the peculiar ecosystem situation we’re living now. Thanks for all the support and feedback I’ve received so far, the ideas has became reality. On February 27th, in Milan, Talent Garden Calabiana is hosting the first CLSxItaly.

Should you come? If you’re the manager of a tech community of any kind (development, makers, operative systems and many more) and you want to learn more about your “job/passion” as a community manager, definitively yes! If your company is working on a technical product and considers the community a crucial part of its development cycle, you should come. If you think you have something to say about diversity in the IT world, you have to come!

How the event will be? A Community Leadership Summit X event type follows a precise licence, so the CLSxItaly will. The event will start on Saturday morning with plenary sessions (have ideas? Ping me please!), then the lunch and then the afternoon will be dedicated to unconference sessions, where participants can discuss topics, needs and ideas they like. A final aperitif will close the day together. This is the “official program”, them I’m sure lot of satellite events will happen, at the end community managers live on that!

What are the CLSxItaly’s goals? First, meet the other Italian community managers face to face. As already discussed, I know different tech communities that have gathered under a national umbrella (GrUSP, GDG Italia, UGIdotNET, JUG, LUG etc), but I also know they don’t exist important cross-community relations, so the event can be the occasion to create them: similar experiences I had in other countries told me that it can only be a good thing. Then, I don’t know about any occasion in Italy to discuss, explore, share and experiment around the “art of community management”, so why don’t create one? Finally, I want to give back: communities have always been one of my passions since the far 2007, when I founded the CMLug, until today, when they are part of my daily job. And passions matter!

So, save the date (February 27th, Milan), spread the voice using the CLSxItaly hashtag and, if you’re interested in joining the adventure, please let me know, even in the comments: there are plenty of things to do (and to learn) and your hand, although small, is more than welcome. To make it more clearer: we need to start from the basics, from building the website… Any help on that?

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28 thoughts on “CLSxItaly: The Community Leadership Summit event is a reality”

  1. Ottimo iniziativa, cerco di esserci, può essere una buona occasione per relazionarsi con altre community e senza dubbio portare a casa nuove esperienze.

  4. Very interesting, the template looks great and the final result too. Thanks for the link! Do you want to help setting-up the event site? I can take care of text and content ;)

  6. Sounds good! I am the co-organizer of the Torino WordPress Meetup and an active member of the official WordPress Italian community. I recently attended WordPress Community Summit in Philadelphia and I am absolutely positive that an Italian tech Community Summit could be a great way to collaborate. At the moment I am pretty swamped with WordCamp Torino (I am the lead organizer) but I will attend for sure. Great idea :-)

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