launch plan

[ericsoco]

• rename this repo to something more descriptive
• finish documentation
• coordinate timing with waldo
• map diff component
• verbage about what this is and what state it's in, and about how we may use/deploy this in the future (help from waldo on this)

...and more! think this through & communicate with @ericrodenbeck and @iamjimstanley

[ericsoco]

From Slack:

Eric Socolofsky [1:11 PM]
Hi @waldo. @ericrodenbeck and I just had a conversation internally about how best to launch / promote this thing, and some concerns came up about context and content.

If you take off your been-part-of-the-project-the-whole-time shoes and visit http://openredist.org/, you get lost very quickly. The explanatory text in the intro modal is somewhat helpful, but may not go far enough on its own and once dismissed is gone forever. We can make it persist in some other way (/cc @alec), but we need to reconsider what it says in the context of openredist.org as a sandbox and as a provocation for opening the redistricting process. (This is a very different context than that of One Virginia 2021, which has a much more specific goal.)

Also, the content is all dummy content right now. Dummy content is fine for getting a point across, but it needs to be curated to help get that point across. Lorem ipsum doesn’t go far enough. We feel that this sandbox will function much better as a proof-of-concept with some dummy redistricting proposals, instead of just random maps, and need someone knowledgeable about the topic to generate the content.

@ericrodenbeck will (tentatively) be joining us on the call tomorrow to hash out these details so we can find the best deliverable for our goals. We can prelude the conversation on Slack, too, if you like.