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+Documentation
+=============
+This repository contains all the documentation for the various Photo Project repositories. You can contribute to it by forking this repository, writing, and submitting a pull request. More info is in the contribute/documentation.markdown file. You can also file documentation-related issues in our issue tracker.
+
+All the documentation is organized by area within subfolders of the /docs/ folder. A lot of this is (or will be) mirrored on http://www.theopenphotoprojet.org. 
+
+'''Big picture TODO'''
+* Contributing to other areas: mobile apps, exporters, ...
+* Copyediting the files for grammatical correctness
+* Checking the guides for correctness and finishing the Shared Hosting guide
+* Documenting other repositories that aren't well-documented such as the mobile apps
+* Manual of Style?