Finish writing README.md

Problem/Motivation

The README.md file for the project is currently a stub and needs to be finished.

Proposed resolution

Finish writing README.md. The project's page has a lot of content that would probably fit well within the README template → .

Remaining tasks

• Finish writing the README.md file.

User interface changes

• The module's page in GitLab will be altered by these changes.
• The documentation mkdocs home page will be altered by these changes.

API changes

N/A

Data model changes

N/A