We are now working on our next quarterly newsletter, which will come out in April. Since the term 'community' can be traced back to the Latin term meaning 'public, general, shared by all or many' and the term 'communicate' can be traced back to the Latin term meaning 'to make common', it seems appropriate to ask this community to participate in this communication.
We are asking members of this community to share with the other approximately 800 people who receive this newsletter any information about innovative community design methods they have seen, resources they have found useful, opportunities of which they are aware, or needs they see in their daily practices. If you have anything you would like to share, please reply to newsletter@communitydesign.org .
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Jody Beck,
editor
from www.etymonline.com
community
1375, from O.Fr. communité, from L. communitatem (nom. communitas) "community, fellowship," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common). L. communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED]. An O.E. word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis.
communication
c.1384, from O.Fr. communicacion, from L. communicationem (nom. communicatio), from communicare "to impart, share," lit. "to make common," from communis (see common).
