themis from informal systems: plain-text contracts with formalized parameters

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This Themis Update looks quite interesting to our approach of starting low-tech and increasing automation as we go:

Informal is a new kind of company: we are built on co-operative principles and we are determined to simplify and democratize tooling for organizational management. To this end we built themis-contract, a tool for drafting, modifying, signing, and compiling legal contracts in plaintext, using a mix of markdown templates and configuration files. While we’ve recently deprioritized feature development in order to intensify the focus on our other projects, we have been using the tool internally for our legal documents. This post details some of the highlights of our current process and explains a bit of the motivation behind our efforts in this direction.

informalsystems/themis-contract: A command line-based parameterized contracting tool

cc @jimscarver