Back in 2015, we grabbed our bags and laptops, boarded a flight form Berlin to Milan, and began knocking on coworking doors wherever we landed. Sixty‑seven cities and more than 550 coworking spaces later, one idea kept surfacing in every chat we had with operators: "Our team needs a place to swap notes—somewhere to learn from people who do this every day."

We started with print. Around the World in 250 Coworking Spaces turned those road‑trip interviews into a big beautiful yellow book— that told the stories of the spaces we visited, talked about the reasons behind all the different coworking spaces, their layouts that worked, rituals that didn't, and the tiny details that make a space feel alive.

Then we initiated something smaller and in‑person: the Community Managers Retreats. Four days in a quiet spot, a dozen managers, no slide decks. Just shared meals, whiteboard scribbles, and late‑night sharing of stories and best practices.

COMS is the next step. Think of it as a working session scaled up: you help write the agenda, steer the workshops, and walk out with contacts you'll actually message on a Monday.