A couple of my friends, Nancy White and John Smith are organizing what they are calling a "muckabout" on the Washington State coast. They have been incredible resources for me over the last few years and I'm sure this event will be valuable.
All the details are here: Distributed Communities of Practice:
The Ecology of Support and Leadership
The event will start online in October, move to a face-to-face getaway, and then go back online. Here are some details from the site:
We will focus our conversations on these four questions and expand with examples and case studies:
How does the social fabric of a distributed community of practice grow and become a resource for a community? How do we balance our distinct roles and status as leaders, facilitators, supporters, participants or critics in our various communities? How do we produce effective events for distributed communities of practice? How do we practically and systematically assess the health of distributed communities of practice?