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 # About UBports
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+* [Introduction](introduction.md)
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+# Introduction
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+This is the documentation for the UBports project. Our goal is to create an open-source (GPL if possible) mobile operating system that [converges](convergence.md) and respects your freedom. 
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+## About UBports
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+The UBports project was founded by Marius Gripsgard in 2015 and in its infancy was a place where developers could share ideas and educate each other in hopes of bringing the Ubuntu Touch platform to more and more devices. 
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+After Canonical suddenly announced [their plans to terminate support of Ubuntu Touch](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/) in April of 2017, UBports and its [sister projects](friends.md) began work on the open-source code, maintaining and expanding its possiblilities for the future.
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+## About the Documentation
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+This documentation is always improving thanks to the members of the UBports community. It is written in Markdown and converted into this readable form by [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/), [ReCommonMark](http://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), and [Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.io). You can start contributing by checking out the relevant [Contribute page](/contribute/documentation.md).
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+All documents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 ([CC-BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) license. Please give attribution to "The UBports Community".
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+## Attribution
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+This page was heavily modeled after the [Godot Engine's Documentation Introduction](http://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/introduction.html), attribution to Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur and the Godot community.
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 # UBports Documentation
 
+Welcome to the official documentation of the UBports project, a community effort to maintain the Ubuntu Touch operating system. If this is your first time here, please consider reading our [introduction](about/introduction.md).
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 ## Table of Contents
 
 * [About UBports](about/index.md)
+  * [Introduction](about.introduction.md)
 * [User Guides](howto/index.md)
 * [Contribute](contribute/index.md)