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Social Income is a radically simple solution in the fight against poverty. The global open-source initiative converts donations into an unconditional basic income, which is sent directly to the mobile phones of people living in poverty in the Global South.

SDG 1    SDG 10

OSS Tools by Social Income

	Admin Tool	Website	Mobile App
Purpose	Make it simple to manage payments, contributors and recipients	Raising donations and inform the public	Make it simple for recipients to manage payments and surveys
Instructions	Readme	Readme	Readme / Contributing
Localhost	localhost:3000 / 4000	localhost:3001	–
Staging	staging-admin.socialincome.org	staging.socialincome.org	Testflight / App Distribution
Production	admin.socialincome.org	socialincome.org	iOS / Android
Issues	Open issues	Open issues	Open issues

Code Contributions

Basic Steps to Contribute

1. Choose an issue and leave a comment that you'd like to work on it (upon we assign it to you) ↗ All issues ↗ Help wanted ↗ Good first issues

2. Setup the basic development environment ↓ Setup

3. Clone the repo and work on it ↓ Developing

4. Create a PR and wait for it to be reviewed

5. If approved, the PR will be merged into the main branch, first on the staging and subsequently on production ↓ Deployments

Frontend developers: You can also develop UI components with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui independent of the website (Readme / Contributing). The components are all collected in our Storybook.

Basic Development Setup

We are mainly leveraging the following tools:

• Firestore for data management
• Firebase Authentication for user management
• Firebase Hosting to serve static content, such as the admin app
• Vercel for website hosting
• Firebase Functions to run backend code in a serverless framework
• Firebase Storage to store documents and other files
• Firebase Emulators for the local dev environment

1. Prerequisites

Node.js: brew install node@18 (Homebrew). Make sure you are using Node.js 18. Follow this guide to switch between different versions of Node.js if need be.

java: brew install openjdk (Homebrew). See also troubleshooting below.

2. Install the dependencies

npm install

3. Start environment

Initiate development environments for specific tools as needed (see table above).

• Always start the Firebase emulator first with npm run firebase:serve — console dashboard is available at localhost:4000.
• To start the Admin Tool, run npm run admin:serve and open localhost:3000.
• To start the Website, run npm run website:serve and open localhost:3001.
• To start the Storybook, run npm run ui:serve and open localhost:6006. (currently broken)

The package.json file gives you a good overview of the available commands.

Developing

Developer Logins

No production credentials are needed for local development.

Data Seed

An initial dataset is imported into the Firebase emulators at startup. You have the flexibility to add, delete, or modify data directly through your Admin Tool or the Firestore Admin Interface locally. After making any changes, you can export the updated data to the seed folder using the command npm run firebase:export.

Format Code

We are using Prettier to format the code: npm run format-code.

Deployments

Staging: PRs merged into main are automatically deployed to staging (Admin Tool / Website) upon core developer approval. Check Github Actions for details. Experienced contributors can deploy directly without approval.

Production: Deployments are made by core developers via GitHub releases.

Backups

We have a function which triggers hourly backups of our production firestore database. The exports are saved to the social-income-prod bucket with a retention period of 30 days.

Bugs & Feature Requests

You can report an issue or request a feature on our issue page. If you want to report a vulnareablity please refer to our security policy.

Financial Contributions

Donate 1 Percent of Your Income

Become a contributor of Social Income (tax-deductible in Switzerland).

Sponsor Dev Community

Become a sponsor and help ensure the development of open source software for more equality and less poverty. Donations through the GitHub Sponsor program are used for building a strong developer community.

Social Income (NGO)

Non-Profit Organization

Social Income is a non-profit association (CHE-289.611.695) based in Zurich, Switzerland. Connect with us X, Insta, LinkedIn, Facebook or by email.

Radical Transparency

We believe that transparency builds trust and trust builds solidarity. This is why we disclose our finances to the public.

Open Source Community

Open Source isn’t an exclusive club. It’s made by people just like you. These individuals, amongst many others, have made significant contributions to Social Income's success:

Software and IP Contributions

We receive in-kind donations from Google Nonprofit, GitHub, Codemagic, Linktree, Twilio, Algolia, JetBrains, 1Password, Mux, Sentry and Lineto. Our tools also leverage other open-source technologies, including solutions like FireCMS, Storybook and Tailwind CSS.

Licensing Information

This project is licensed under MIT, with the exception of the Unica77 font, which is exclusively licensed to Social Income.