About the Intentional Communities Website

The Intentional Communities Website came online in 1994 and is published by the Fellowship for Intentional Community. This website complements the FIC's print publications such as the Communities Directory and Communities magazine in providing people with the information and resources needed to find, create, maintain and support intentional communities of all kinds.

This website is funded by donations and sales of online ads and all labor is provided volunteer and/or at very low rates by those who support the FIC and the communities movement. Consider making a donation or becoming an FIC member

Those currently contributing to this website:

Tony Sirna lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeast Missouri and is a member of the income sharing household Skyhouse. He has served on the FIC's board of directors since 1997 and has been the coordinator for this website since 2005.

The current design was created by Mark Mazziotti who lives at Red Earth Farms in Northeast Missouri. Mark also helped design the FIC's logo.

Amy Seidan also lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and in Skyhouse. She has been instrumental in the graphic design of this site and continues to provide graphic support.

About the Communities Directory

The FIC published its first print edition of the Communities directory in 1990 with new editions in 1995 and 2000. The FIC has also been providing online information about intentional communities at www.ic.org since 1994.

In 2004 we brought the complete Communities Directory to this website and are now allowing communities to update their information online, thus providing you with the most accurate and up-to-date information available.

This effort is funded through donations and volunteer labor. If you would like to support this project see our donations page.

A print version of the Communities Directory has been published based on the data from this website for those wishing to have a hard copy version.

One goal of this online project is to share data and data technology among community networking organizations. For years the FIC's www.ic.org had been doing so with the Coho/US's website www.cohousing.org . The FIC hopes to bring other organizations into a collaborative relationship and have dubbed this effort the Intentional Communities Data Collective (ICDC). Information submitted to this site will be available to all ICDC members and may be presented on their websites or in print publications. See our Privacy Policy for more details.

Info for Geeks

The Communities Directory is written in open source software, primarily in PHP with a MySQL database. In addition we use numerous packages from PHP's PEAR architecture, and the Smarty template engine. If you want a copy of the code for any non-malicious purposes contact us

Acknowledgements

The primary coding for the Communities Directory was done by Skyhouse Consulting, with the bulk done by member Tony Sirna. Skyhouse Consulting is a business of Skyhouse Community which is located at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage . Code was also supplied by Ofek and his work on the ICDB.org site.

Thanks to Elph, Charles, Michael, and McCune for their help on this site.

Former contributors to www.ic.org:

Jillian was on the road in the USA for two years as production manager of the 2000 edition of the Communities Directory and contributed to this website for many years. She lives at Great Oak Cohousing in Ann Arbor.

Elph first became acquainted with cooperative living in 1987 while at college and has been involved with the FIC and CSA since 1991. He worked at managing editor of the 2000 edition of the Communities Directory. He keeps busy learning about people and relationships, and working as a computer geek. Current projects involve living at Great Oak Cohousing.

Michael enjoys being focused on the present and finding pleasure in all the little things of life. He has lived in community since 1990 ranging from small co-op houses to the large (Sunward Cohousing) community. He became involved with the Fellowship at the Fall 94 Board meeting and was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the www.ic.org site. He also co- managed www.cohousing.org for several years. Michael is still active in the communities movement.

Velma is a long time communitarian and currently lives at Abundant Dawn Community in Virginia. She is not currently active in www.ic.org work but she first created http://store.ic.org.