#+TITLE: Spritely: New Foundations for Networked Communities #+AUTHOR: Christine Lemmer-Webber, Randy Farmer *NOTE:* This is an early draft. Has yet to be reviewed by the technical review board. Blah blah, talk about all three papers... This paper isn'e even close to being ready yet, it's just being outlined. For now, [[file:spritely-core.org][The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security]] is the document that needs your feedback. * Introduction ** Overview ** Spritely and The Spritely Institute *** Research and development through The Spritely Project *** Interoperability, specifications, and standardization *** Education *** Why a nonprofit? * How centralization has corrupted networked communities * A sketch of a better future * Where to from here? * Conclusions * Acknowledgements