Hey Guilers, As some of you may already know, the Spritely Institute is building new foundations for the internet; technology that is safer, decentralized, distributed, and community-centric. But we can't continue on without *you*! Today, Spritely has launched its first ever supporter drive and we're asking the community to help us reach our fundraising goal of $80,000 USD by February 5th, 2025.
We want to build networks that empower secure collaboration and healthy communities, but the reality is that it's simply too hard to build such networks with contemporary web development tools and standards. Thus, Spritely has set out to do research and develop tools that make peer-to-peer, secure, collaborative communication platforms something that any developer can build, not just subject matter experts. Notably, we made the interesting decision to implement our vision with Guile! Spritely has chosen Guile due to Scheme's usefulness in programming language research and Guile's practical implementation that allows us to get things done. Your donations *directly* fund the development of projects in the Guile ecosystem such as Goblins [0], a capability-secure distributed programming library, and Hoot [1], a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler and toolchain. Our work has also resulted in improvements to Guile itself, the Haunt static site generator, the fibers concurrency library, and the GnuTLS bindings to name a few. Please consider donating to support this important and ongoing work! To become a Spritely supporter, visit the URL below: https://spritely.institute/donate/ Spritely is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and donations are tax-deductible in the US. Thanks for reading and happy scheming! - Dave (Spritely CTO) [0] https://spritely.institute/goblins/ [1] https://spritely.institute/hoot/
