Roadmap

The work that would make Samaritan transferable, local, and able to outgrow its author

This is a sequence of proofs, not a product feature list.

Establish the commons

  1. Make Samaritan's identity consistent across the homepage, navigation, metadata, and core community pages.
  2. Audit existing guides for sources, hazards, local assumptions, and the difference between a draft and a field-tested practice.
  3. State licensing per project or artifact instead of applying one license to everything linked here.
  4. Exercise the repository's CI/CD path and publish the result through the status page.
  5. Establish one public route for corrections and contributions without requiring registration on Casey's internal forge.

Put one practice into other hands

Turn Start Where You Live into a printable field sheet. Have a small group review it. Run one modest cycle — a contact tree, tool map, seed exchange, preservation day, or harvest pickup — then publish what changed because reality pushed back.

The useful milestone is not traffic. It is one practice continuing when Casey is not present to explain it.

Let places diverge

Support translations and local variants. A food guide for one climate, health authority, or street should not silently become universal. Preserve a shared core of consent, local authority, evidence, and offline fallback while letting the procedure fit its place.

Explore isolated agent-assisted cells

Only after a human practice exists, test whether a small local service can reduce clerical load: matching offers to requests, reminding stewards about crop or pickup windows, or proposing routes.

This remains a research direction. Any trial needs local ownership, minimal data, short retention, readable provenance, named human confirmation, an off switch, and a tested way to continue without the model or network. No system should decide who deserves food.

Measures worth keeping

  • a guide printed or saved for offline use;
  • a practice tried outside its author;
  • a correction or failure report returned;
  • a local adaptation published with its conditions;
  • another person able to teach the method;
  • a group continuing under its own authority.

Ship what works. Label what has not. Release enough control for the practice to become somebody else's.