# Community Infrastructure **Domain:** Social Systems / Technology **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Community infrastructure is the technical, organizational, and relational substrate that lets people find one another, contribute, preserve work, coordinate action, and sustain a shared institution. ## Mechanism Tools lower the cost of participation, while norms and roles convert access into dependable cooperation. The infrastructure succeeds when members gain capability rather than becoming passive users. ## Significance A durable community treats technology as support for human development, memory, and mutual recognition. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Online Community|Online Community]] - [[wiki/Human Infrastructure|Human Infrastructure]] - [[wiki/Digital Infrastructure|Digital Infrastructure]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “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)* [[reminders/Information/Infrastructure Must Serve the People Who Sustain It by Bryant McGill|Infrastructure Must Serve the People Who Sustain It by Bryant McGill]]