# Infrastructure Must Serve the People Who Sustain It by Bryant McGill > “The best community platform becomes an institution of shared capability. It helps people make better work, recognize one another, preserve what they create, and carry it into the world. When the infrastructure serves the people, the people sustain the infrastructure.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream (Aug 2016)* ## Sources and Context - **Source:** [[livestreams/Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream|Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream]] — exact quotation from the developed livestream document. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation|A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Livestream:** [[livestreams/Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream|Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Community Infrastructure|Community Infrastructure]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The best community platform becomes an institution of shared capability. It helps people make better work, recognize one another, preserve what they create, and carry it into the world. When the infrastructure serves the people, the people sustain the infrastructure.” — Bryant McGill, Building a Community Platform for Durable Creative Work - Livestream (Aug 2016) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-infrastructure-serves-people ```