# gather - co-creative event application

## synopsis
Software for co-creating, accessing, and managing emergent events. It could be a meeting for a project, practice session for a martial art, gaming session, hobby hangout, or a big celebration.

Gather lets you see and actualize previously invisible possibilities for coming together with the people in your life around the things you care about.

gather is software that enables people to form events in a way that both promotes flexibility and mutual leadership as well as clarifying and making commitments visible.

## overview
the gather application will let people create simple events both within a group or in a more open space.

It will also provide possibilities of granular emergent planning where events come together as the commitments needed to make them real are matched and fulfilled.

Over time, fulfilled commitments and past event experiences will be visible to create higher levels of trust and more reliabile processes.

## UX flows

### simple event creation

flowchart TD
    EVENT(((event)))
    ALICE[Alice]
    -- creates --> EVENT --shares event --> SPACE[public or private spaces]
    BEN[Benjamin] -- requests events --> SPACE
    SPACE -- recieves events --> BEN
    BEN -- declares attending --> EVENT
    BEN -- cancels attending --> EVENT
    

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### mutual commitments co-creation

flowchart TD
    EVENT(((event possibility)))
    ALICE[Alice]
    -- creates --> EVENT
    ALICE -- claims to full fill two commitments --> EVENT
    BEN -- claims commitments --> EVENT
    EVENT --> FULFILLED{are event commitments fulfilled?}
    FULFILLED -- yes --> CREATED(((created event)))
    FULFILLED -- no --> Timebound{is event timebound and past?} -- yes --> CANCEL{{possibility cancelled}} 

## user stories
### basic
- A person should be able to create an event, either open (public) or invite only (private)
- Events could be marked as having a ticket cost, but purchasing is not handled in MVP
- People should be able to mark as attending
- People should be able to see who else is attending an event
- Doodle-like possibility, these are the times I am available for certain activity (within certain membrane)
- A person should be able to export all their data on what events they have created and attended.
- A person shold be able to export calendar data

### commitments

- Setting up possible/tentative events: - who would like to do this? this is needed for this to happen?
- When I say something is going to happen, how often does it actually happen?
- See peoples history, how likely is it that people will actually attend?

## design considerations

- events and event possibilities should be able to be shared into many different contexts/membranes
- a Hosted space should be available for making events visible in public
- event, attendance and commitment data should be exportable for each agent
- calendar events should be exportable
- people should be able to use the gather app within WE groups

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