CoP 1

...........................................CoP is basically a group of people with some interest, and they were learning by practice and by social interaction, with some goals in their mind. In CoP , sharing of knowledge is happening , but they may not be in a conscious way. In CoP, interaction is happening between the people, but the topic is within the interest. They may not aware of the other interest of the same people they are dealing with.

....................................Within the CoP, there are some other communities, such as CoAction,CoCircumstance,CoPosition etc.

...................................CoAction, is more working voluntarly towards some interest. Gangs may be considered as a CoA.Because they don’t have any view towards the future.

CoCircumstance is a group of people who are gathered by some special circumstance. People in a hostel,apartment and also people in jail can be considered as CoCircumstance.

.................................CoPosition is the community in which we deal with different people at different position of our life. Being a school we are CoP in school, being in college we are CoP in college, as an Employee we are CoP in company.

...........................CoP exist wherever there is people with common thought process , it differs in the which state we are ....

Reference::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities_of_Practice