[wip] first pass at Enspiral Venture introduction

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+## Root Systems
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+**Contact person**
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+- Mikey Williams - [email protected]
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+**Venture Stewards** 
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+* Mikey Williams
+* Mix Irving
+* Damian Sligo-Green
+
+**Venture Description**
+
+Root Systems is a [livelihood pod](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F7GYGf_5OBmjsAJxbVQfxjFVYy1AqD9yVRsL-9mOhfY/edit#) doing tech consulting and software development within the Enspiral network. Our purpose is to imagine and cultivate an ecosystem of local, replicable, life-support systems for interdependent abundance.
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+**Links to website or other resources**
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+- [rootsystems.nz](https://www.rootsystems.nz/)
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+**Key personnel**
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+our [Members](https://www.rootsystems.nz/members/readme.html)
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+- Dan Lewis: Coordinator
+- Greg Kan
+- Iain Kirkpatrick: Director
+- Juliet Carpenter
+- Michael Smith: Director
+- Mikey Williams: Coordinator
+- Sarah Rogers
+
+**Founding Date & Brief History**
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+our [History](https://www.rootsystems.nz/context/history/readme.html)
+
+**Legal structure**
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+Limited Liability Company with one share per member.
+
+[Companies Office record](http://www.companies.govt.nz/co/6185345)
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+**Business Model**
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+- Software development
+  - Contract work
+    - greenfield protopypes
+    - full-stack JavaScript
+    - React Native mobile
+  - Social coordination (supply network) products
+    - Cobuy (group purchasing)
+      - bundled with Loomio and sold as Tapin to Ministry of Education
+
+**Impact Strategy / Theory of Change**
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+our [Vision](https://www.rootsystems.nz/context/vision.html) and [Plan](https://www.rootsystems.nz/context/plan.html)
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+**Enspiral Foundation Contribution**
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+- 100 NZD per person per month financial contribution
+- pod ecosystem coordination
+- open source organizing systems
+- open source coordination products
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+**Asks to Enspiral**
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+- maybe an external director?
+- keep us in mind for any greenfield JavaScript contracts
+- help with product business development, design, marketing, sales