The Online Community Unconference 2007 is a gathering of online community practitioners - managers, developers, business people, tools providers, funders - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues. The best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners.

Full information is at http://www.forumone.com/unconference.

The Online Community Unconference is inspired by the emerging "open space" conference format. (For an excellent description, see this News.com article on the recent MashUp Camp , or the Wikipedia "unconference" entry.)  We expect to have at least 20 sessions which will be decided at the start of the day. There will also be plenty of time for networking.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View is a unique venue with plenty of parking and WiFi. Lunch and snacks will be provided, and the Museum exhibits will be open to the group during the breaks.

We're really looking forward to this event and hope to see you there. Tell your colleagues (this event is open to all)!