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+# Welcome to Forgejo
+
+Hi there! Tired of big platforms playing monopoly?
+Providing Git hosting for your project, friends, company or community?
+Forgejo (Esperanto: forge) has you covered with it's intuitive interface,
+light and easy hosting and a lot of builtin functionality.
+
+Forgejo was forked from the well-known [Gitea](https://gitea.io) project in 2022,
+because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community instead of a for-profit company.
+If you second that, then Forgejo is for you!
+Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!
+
+
+## What does Forgejo offer?
+
+If you want to know what Forgejo is like,
+you can check out public instances<!-- could become link to list -->,
+e.g. [Codeberg.org](https://codeberg.org).
+
+If you like any of the following, Forgejo is literally meant for you:
+
+- Lightweight: Forgejo can easily be hosted on nearly **every machine**.
+  Running on a Raspberry? Small cloud instance? No problem!
+- Intuitive: We aim for a user experience that is **friendly** to newcomers and **productive** for power users.
+- Project management: Next to Git hosting, Forgejo offers issues,
+  pull requests, wikis, kanban boards and much more to **coordinate with your team**.
+- Publishing: Have something to share? Use **releases** to host your software for download,
+  or use the **package registry** to publish it for docker, npm and many other package managers.
+- Customizable: Want to change your look? Change some settings?
+  There are many **config switches** to make Forgejo work exactly like you want.
+- Powerful: Organizations & team permissions, CI integration, Code Search, LDAP, OAuth and much more.
+  If you have **advanced needs**, Forgejo has you covered.
+- Federation: (WIP) We are actively working to connect software forges with each other through **ActivityPub**,
+  and create a collaborative network of personal instances.
+  Interested? [Read more below](#Status-of-federation)
+
+
+## Getting started
+
+We're working towards our first release.
+The download options will be published here.
+
+### Documentation
+
+...
+
+## Roadmap
+
+We're currently working on ... for the next release.
+
+
+### Status of Federation
+
+...
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+... 
+
+### Translating
+
+## Thanks to ...