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Ask HN: How do you keep a physical community alive?

2 points by 2rsf ↗ HN
I'm a test lead in a medium large financial organization. As part of adopting SAFE (yes, i know...) and the Spotify model I am reviving a professional community under the COP or Guild hats respectively.

We have the basics- an ongoing leaders community, organizational support is expected, shared interest and problems to solve but somehow when I examine our history (and to be honest of other places as well) it seems that communities tend to be short lived.

I would appreciate any inputs or experience about keeping communities alive and bubbly over long periods.

This discussion [1] about online communities has some good tips, i wonder if virtual communities are that different than the ones in the real world

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812442

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humbledstone
At a previous employer, my dev team was pretty anti-social and we were in the basement of the building with a floor that was under construction between us and the rest of the company. I noticed most of the company had no clue who were on the dev team or what we did. So I set up a weekly lunch where we would play board games while playing. This helped us get to know others within the company, and made us feel like part of a larger community. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I was surprised by the results. They continue to do this even while I am no longer working there.
2rsf
Everything goes, thanks