After a lengthy conversation today with affiliate researcher Olivia Steiert, I have sketched out five levels of engagement with my project Intertwingler, ordered by investment of time and skills:

Using

You are using an instance of Intertwingler that I am personally✱ running:

• You are reading doriantaylor.com or the.natureof.software, etc.
• You are one of my clients interacting with your client extranet.
• You are interacting with my instance of the IBIS tool.†

Instantiating

You are running an instance of Intertwingler, using a presentation layer I (or potentially somebody else) have already prepared, on one of your own properties:

• your personal computer
• your organization's Web or intranet server
• your Web server-less (AWS Lambda, etc.)

Adapting

You are an enterprising person with front-end skills, using Intertwingler to make your own dense hypermedia network with your own UI design.

Extending

You are back-end Web developer, comfortable writing microservices, creating one or more handlers (content handler or transform) to extend the capabilities of Intertwingler.

Porting

You are a library and/or framework developer, porting the core Intertwingler engine to your preferred programming language.