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+# This repository is no longer maintained.
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+Issue reports and pull requests will not be attended.
+There are volunteers who are now maintaining OpenNI such as listed below, so please work with them.
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+* Occipital: http://structure.io/openni [[Fork on Github](https://github.com/occipital/openni2)]
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