If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly.

Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today. But what’s next? For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they’ve built? What happens to communities when successful projects are acquired by big corporate behemoths? What happens to communities when their projects fail?

Join a panel of those who get a first-hand look at what it takes to manage some of the highest-profile communities in open source: Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier from OpenSUSE, Ross Turk from SourceForge.net, Jono Bacon from Ubuntu, John Mark Walker from CollabNet and Jeremy Hogan from Hyperic. What trends are they seeing across their communities? What advice can they give other community managers? What’s worked and what hasn’t for them? What’s on the horizon for each of their communities?

More info here. If you register now, you can get 15% off using this coupon code: os08s15.