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πŸ“ TOBIAS: Sprout README as Contributor-Facing Product Marketing
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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.
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# [TOBIAS, the TOpical Basic Income Administration Service](https://github.com/zspencer/convene/issues/1)
<!-- Pain: People are hungry and unhoused, yo. -->

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.


<!-- Dream: What if people didn't have to worry as much about money? -->
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?

<!-- Fix: Community-Operated, Automated Basic Income -->
TOBIAS, the TOpical Basic Income Administration System automates administering a basic income trust for industries, communities, regions, and organizations.

TOBIAS combines democratic stewardship, financial automation, and trust fund management to collect, invest and distribute wealth as a community.

Whether administering a basic income fund for a region, industry, organization, or community; TOBIAS simplifies record-keeping, drives investment, and streamlines participant payments.

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