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The Malleable Systems Collective is a community space that catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power via several essential principles detailed below. For all of these principles, it is not yet clear how to best achieve them, and there are sure to be many possible solutions with different tradeoffs. We’ll need to experiment as community with various approaches. The collective’s primary goal is to report on such efforts and raise awareness of work in these directions. Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it.1 We have spent many decades in the worthy pursuit of making computing easier to use, and many such improvements to the experience of using software do in fact come to life and improve the computing applications we use everyday. By contrast, the process of changing the features and interfaces of most software is not just difficult: in many modern ecosystems, such as the app stores of smartphones and increasingly on deskt

Community The Malleable Systems Collective is a community space that catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power via several essential principles detailed below. For all of these principles, it is not yet clear how to best achieve them, and there are sure to be many possible solutions with different tradeoffs. We'll need to experiment as community with various approaches. The collective's primary goal is to report on such efforts and raise awareness of work in these directions. Principles 1. Easy to change Software must be as easy to change as i

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