Community Driven Development
summary
Over two years and 1,062 commits a Ruby on Rails MVP scales NSC’s workflows: volunteer-accompaniment scheduling, document uploads, and case tracking. The app moves clinic throughput from 4 to ~100 friends weekly and accompaniment coverage from ~10 to 50–70 accompaniments weekly; volunteer shifts grow to 125–175 and clinic attendance tops 150 before restructuring. Work includes multi-tenant Rails changes, NationBuilder and G Suite setup, security/password-manager support, hack-event onboarding, a monthly newsletter and recurring virtual co-working to retain contributors.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:19Outline
- 0:38New Sanctuary Coalition
- 1:15accompaniment program
- 2:43pro se legal clinic
- 3:18anti detention program
- 4:12sanctuary
- 9:05requirements
- 14:07values
- 20:10accompaniments
- 20:55prose legal clinic
- 21:42sustainable development
- 25:16community
- 30:38investing community
- 31:28links
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