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-Welcome to Arvados
-==================
+[comment]: # (Copyright © The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.)
+[comment]: # ()
+[comment]: # (SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0)
 
 [Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
 for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
@@ -10,17 +11,15 @@ Arvados consists of:
 * *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
   storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
 
-* *Crunch*: a Docker-based workflow engine designed providing strong
-  versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
+* *Crunch*: a Docker-based cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
+  strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
 
 * Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
   and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
 
 ## 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
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ doc/README.textile for instructions.
 
 ## 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
@@ -57,19 +56,24 @@ is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
 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=arvados-api-server)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/arvados-api-server/)
+[![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
 
 Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
 
-You can use Arvbox as a self-contained Arvados development environment using
-`arvbox start dev` and run the Arvados test suite with `arvbox start test`.
-See http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
+Instructions for setting up a development environment and working on specific
+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