# Mu: designing a safe computing stack from the ground up **URL:** \ **Category:** Projects\ **Created:** [25 February 2023 16:49 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/mu-designing-a-safe-computing-stack-from-the-ground-up/51 "2023-02-25T16:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![akkartik](https://forum-cdn.malleable.systems/user_avatar/forum.malleable.systems/akkartik/32/43_2.png) [@akkartik](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/akkartik)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2023 17:38 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/mu-designing-a-safe-computing-stack-from-the-ground-up/51/7 "2023-05-01T17:38:56Z")
That’s a totally valid criticism. I never managed to work in the context of a community, and I still struggle with that in my current projects. Do you have any suggestions? I’m curious what it took to foster a community around Grafoscopio, and if there are lessons I can learn from your experience. > I wanted research that went beyond papers and academia and closer to the grassroots communities outside This 100% matches my priorities. Because of my difficulty bootstrapping communities, my focus is on building things are useful even just to a single person working alone. But perhaps that focus perpetuates the problem. > we need to make explicit the metasystem properties of digital tools/infrastructures, i.e. the ability to describe themself via a continuum between the running app/tool and its source code and create explicit educative practices in a grassroots community where such apps/tools are introduced/used/modified. I don’t follow this at all. Could you rephrase or elaborate? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/mu-designing-a-safe-computing-stack-from-the-ground-up/51)._