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[Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
## Quick start
-Curoverse maintains an Arvados public cloud demo at
-[https://cloud.curoverse.com](https://cloud.curoverse.com). A Google account
-is required to log in.
+Veritas Genetics maintains a public installation of Arvados for evaluation and trial use, the [Arvados Playground](https://playground.arvados.org). A Google account is required to log in.
To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
## Community
-The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
+The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados) IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
channel at the
[Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
development. The
[Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
-contributers to Arvados.
+contributors to Arvados.
## Development
[![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=run-tests)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/run-tests/)
+[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/curoverse/arvados)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/curoverse/arvados)
The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
components can be found on the
["Hacking Arvados" page of the Arvados wiki](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Hacking).
+## Contributing
+
+When making a pull request, please ensure *every git commit message* includes a one-line [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin). If you have already made commits without it, fix them with `git commit --amend` or `git rebase`.
+
## Licensing
Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free