For the last four or five months, I've been speaking about communities of practice (CoP) as a model for 1) propagating Drupal culture through this period of rapid growth and adoption 2) supplementing Drupal training, and 3) helping facilitate Drupal learning where professional training is not a practical option.

After blogging about it and subjecting my drupalfriends to lengthy rants about CoP, it was a real pleasure, when bringing up the topic yesterday at a DrupalCon lunch, fellow Drupalista Heather James (@hjames) responded : Oh yes! Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave! Communities of Practice!. Heather and I went off at a hundred miles an hour like two friends who just realized they shared a secret, and at the end of the conversation, everyone was asking for a bibliography.

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