From e98d3d1ff6b63cdf042fef73e4258c6914ef1e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zee <50284+zspencer@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:37:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9D=20`TOBIAS`:=20Sprout=20README=20as?= =?UTF-8?q?=20Contributor-Facing=20Product=20Marketing=20(#2)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * 📝 `TOBIAS`: Sprout README as Contributor-Facing Product Marketing - https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/issues/709 - https://github.com/zspencer/convene/issues/1 This is an attempt at using a README as a form of product-design documentation. It follows the Pain-Dream-Fix recipe for marketing copy, with an emphasis on the code's *purpose*. By exposing the purpose of the code; new contributors (or contributors that have been away for a bit) have a way of grounding themselves in the product-thinking behind the project itself. That said, good README's have additional context beyond the purpose, such as: - A Data Model, which exposes a high-level view of the interactions between entities within the system we are building. - Setup instructions, such as guidance for how to populate an initial database or a reference to additional software to install. But for now we don't have either of those things; and I wanted to do some Product-based House Keeping, such as creating Fauxsonas and Use Cases before diving into Engineering. --- app/furniture/tobias/README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 app/furniture/tobias/README.md diff --git a/app/furniture/tobias/README.md b/app/furniture/tobias/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8c63426ca --- /dev/null +++ b/app/furniture/tobias/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# [TOBIAS, the TOpical Basic Income Administration Service](https://github.com/zspencer/convene/issues/1) + + +Many people have insufficient free cashflow to cover reliable, healthy, and safe shelter, food, health care, and education. + +So much energy is spent worrying about affording to live in a place that suits us, to eat food we enjoy, to receive care when we are hurting or infirm, or to develop ourselves further to the people we want to be. + + + +What if people didn't have to invest so much of their daily energy on how to access reliable, healthy, and safe shelter, food, health care, and education? + +What if education workers could spend more time focusing on teaching because they had access to additional income through a California Education Workers Basic Income Fund, their Teachers Union, or the American Association for Montessori Educators? + +What if restaurants and grocers lowered prices because food workers receive a supplemental wage through the County Food Workers Living Wage Trust? + +What if we all received a little-bit of cash every month thanks to the California Residents Basic Income Program? + + +TOBIAS combines democratic stewardship, financial automation, and trust fund management to reduce financial stress of people around us. It simplifies record-keeping, facilitates decision-making, and streamlines payments when administering a basic income fund for a region, industry, organization, or community.