The following includes communities that may share some goals, practices or ideas with permacomputing. For ideas and ideologies that don't have communities around themselves, see concepts.

Practical:

• ?Appropriate technology
• Collapse computing
• FLOSS
• Smallnet
• See also: projects

Academic:

• Computing within Limits
• ?Sustainable ICT

Activism, Policy Making and Legislation:

• offline first
• right to repair
• ?Green software engineering

Artistic:

• Holistic Computing Arts
• Small File Media Festival
• Algorave
• demoscene
• solarpunk
• ?Ecological Art and Design