--- title: "6 lessons learned from 6 years of building relationships with events" url: https://daily.dev/posts/6-lessons-learned-from-6-years-of-building-relationships-with-events-ug0nucrsd source_url: https://www.giantswarm.io/blog/6-lessons-learned-from-6-years-of-building-relationships-with-events type: article source: "Giant Swarm" published: 2026-06-16T18:20:35.901Z updated: 2026-06-16T18:56:50.836Z tags: ["community", "devrel"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 6 lessons learned from 6 years of building relationships with events **[Giant Swarm](https://daily.dev/sources/giantswarm)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A six-year retrospective on building genuine community through small, intimate events at Giant Swarm. Key lessons include prioritizing depth over scale (knowing 200-300 people well beats a database of thousands), listening before pitching, embracing the off-the-record small-format as a feature, building trust through reliability and honesty about failures, treating professional contacts as real people, and recognizing that authentic human relationships become more valuable as automated communication proliferates. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Big stages, smaller impact.](https://daily.dev/posts/big-stages-smaller-impact--vdodkgqse) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#devrel](https://daily.dev/tags/devrel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/6-lessons-learned-from-6-years-of-building-relationships-with-events-ug0nucrsd)