The École Polytechnique alumni network — known to its members simply as "X" — is the second of Pour La Joie's founding communities. The choice was not accidental: among the founders are graduates of the school, and they wanted to test the Joies ritual first within a network they knew well.
A graduate community is a curious thing. It binds people who shared a formative experience but went on to live wildly different lives — engineers, civil servants, artists, founders of associations. The threads that hold them together are mostly weak, and rarely activated outside of reunions and obituaries.
We think a Joie can do a small but meaningful work here: an alum honoring a former classmate, a mentor, a colleague who quietly carried a project. A way to mark recognition that does not need to wait for retirement or a memorial.
We are gathering ideas from the X community itself. What would feel right? What would feel forced? Tell us.