diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..160b2f89d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Author
+------
+
+Ian Bicking
+
+Maintainers
+-----------
+
+Brian Rosner
+Carl Meyer
+Jannis Leidel
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+Antonio Cuni
+Armin Ronacher
+Christopher Nilsson
+Curt Micol
+Douglas Creager
+Jeff Hammel
+Jorge Vargas
+Josh Bronson
+Lars Francke
+Philip Jenvey
+Ronny Pfannschmidt
+Tarek Ziadé
+kumar
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 4e4dd20aa..311225d32 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 # General substitutions.
 project = 'virtualenv'
-copyright = '2009, Ian Bicking, The Open Planning Project'
+copyright = '2007-2011, Ian Bicking, The Open Planning Project, The virtualenv developers'
 
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
 # other places throughout the built documents.
diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt
index ce4948f34..99d29c55b 100644
--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ virtualenv
 ==========
 
 * `Discussion list <http://groups.google.com/group/python-virtualenv/>`_
-* `Bugs <https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/issues/>`_
+* `Bugs <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/>`_
 
 .. contents::
 
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ virtualenv
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    news
-   license
 
 .. comment: split here
 
@@ -22,13 +21,15 @@ Status and License
 of `virtual-python
 <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#creating-a-virtual-python>`_.
 
-It is written by Ian Bicking, and sponsored by the `Open Planning
-Project <http://openplans.org>`_.  It is licensed under an
-`MIT-style permissive license <license.html>`_.
+It was written by Ian Bicking, sponsored by the `Open Planning
+Project <http://openplans.org>`_ and is now maintained by a
+`group of developers <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/raw/master/AUTHORS.txt>`.
+It is licensed under an
+`MIT-style permissive license <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/raw/master/LICENSE.txt>`_.
 
 You can install it with ``easy_install virtualenv``, or from the `hg
-repository <http://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv>`_ or from a `tarball
-<http://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/get/tip.gz#egg=virtualenv-tip>`_
+repository <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv>`_ or from a `tarball
+<https://github.com/pypa/pip/tarball/master#egg=virtualenv-tip>`_
 ``easy_install virtualenv==tip``.
 
 What It Does
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ To use Distribute just call virtualenv like this::
     $ python virtualenv.py --distribute ENV
 
 You can also set the environment variable VIRTUALENV_USE_DISTRIBUTE (since 1.4.4) 
-and be a good Comrade
+and be a good Comrade.
 
 PyPy Support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index 1060df29a..8ef55c674 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ tip
 
 * Updated bundled pip to 0.8.2.
 
+* Handed project over to new team of maintainers.
+
+* Moved virtualenv to Github at https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
+
 1.5.1
 -----
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1276ac649..7d628f03e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
       keywords='setuptools deployment installation distutils',
       author='Ian Bicking',
       author_email='ianb@colorstudy.com',
-      url='http://virtualenv.openplans.org',
+      url='http://www.virtualenv.org',
       license='MIT',
       py_modules=['virtualenv'],
       packages=['virtualenv_support'],