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-# InnerSourceCommons
+# InnerSource Commons
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+This repo primarily serves to host the pages for InnerSource Commons. There's not much to be done in this branch yet.
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+If you'd like to add your case study to the collection, you'll want to switch to the gh-pages branch.
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