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diff --git a/README b/README-rails.txt index 025ee5e84..025ee5e84 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README-rails.txt diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e639d7db --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Welcome to Alaveteli! + +This is an open source project to create a standard, internationalised +platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in different +countries around the world. The software started off life as +[WhatDoTheyKnow](http://github.com), a website produced by +[mySociety](http://mysociety.org) for making FOI requests in the UK. + +We hope that by joining forces between teams across the world, we can +all work together on producing the best possible software, and help +move towards a world where governments approach transparency as the +norm, rather than the exception. + +Please join our mailing list at +https://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev and introduce yourself. + +There's background information on +[our wiki](https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli/wiki/Home/), and +hopefully we'll make [our homepage](http://alaveteli.org) more useful +in due course. |