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+title: Arvados
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@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ title: Arvados | Documentation
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         <h1>ARVADOS</h1>
-        <p>manuals, guides, and references</p>
+        <p>A free and open source platform for big data science</p>
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-      <p>This site contains documentation for the <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados platform</a>. The documentation is being developed as part of the open source project. It is a work in progress that has just gotten started. You can get involved by <a href="https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Documentation">joining the documentation effort</a>.
+      <p><a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> enables you to quickly begin using cloud computing resources in your data science work. It allows you to track your methods and datasets, share them securely, and easily re-run analyses.
+      </p>
+      <p><strong>Quickstart</strong>: Check out our <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/start/index.html">key features</a>, complete with screenshots, and then follow our tutorial to <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/start/getting_started/firstpipeline.html">run your first pipeline</a> using our <a href="http://lp.curoverse.com/beta-signup/">public beta</a>.
+      </p>
+      <p><strong>News</strong>: Read our <a href="https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/blogs">blog updates</a> or look through our <a href="https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/activity">recent developer activity</a>.
+      </p>
+      <p><strong>Questions?</strong> Email <a href="http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados">the mailing list</a>, or chat with us on IRC: <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados">#arvados</a> @ OFTC (you can <a href="https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados">join in your browser</a>).
+      </p>
+      <p><strong>Want to contribute?</strong> Check out our <a href="https://arvados.org/projects/arvados">developer site</a>. We're open source, check out our code on <a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados">github</a>.
+      </p>
+      <p><strong>License</strong>: Arvados is under the copyleft <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/agpl-3.0.html">GNU AGPL v3</a>, with our SDKs under <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License 2.0</a> (so that you can incorporate proprietary toolchains into your pipelines).
+      </p>
+
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+      <p>Below you can also find more in-depth guides for using Arvados.
+      </p>
+      <br>
+      <p>
+        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/start/index.html">Getting Started</a> &mdash; Start here if you're new to Arvados.
+      </p>
       <p>
         <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/index.html">User Guide</a> &mdash; How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
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       <p>
         <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/install/index.html">Install Guide</a> &mdash; How to install Arvados on a cloud platform.
-      </p>      
+      </p>
+      <br>
+      <p><em><small>
+      The content of the above documentation is licensed under the
+      <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/by-sa-3.0.html">Creative
+        Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States</a> license. Code samples in the above documentation are licensed under the
+      <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License, Version 2.0.</a></small></em>
+      </p>
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