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-See [Pangeo Forge Roadmap](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/roadmap) for general information about this project.
+__pangeo-forge__ is an open-source tool designed to aid the extraction, transformation, and loading of datasets. The goal of pangeo-forge is to make it easy to extract datasets from traditional data repositories and deposit them into cloud object storage in analysis-ready, cloud-optimized format.
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+pangeo-forge is inspired by [conda-forge](https://conda-forge.org/), a community-led collection of recipes for building [Conda](https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/) packages. We hope that pangeo-forge can play the same role for datasets.
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+## Documentation
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+More can be learned about pangeo-forge, its progress, and related subprojects in its [official documentation](https://pangeo-forge.readthedocs.io).
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+## Contributing
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+pangeo-forge is still early in development - there are several ways to contribute:
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+1. [Create a recipe](https://pangeo-forge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribute.html) for a dataset you are interested in
+2. Open an issue or pull request here or in any of the related subprojects ([pangeo-smithy](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/pangeo-smithy), [staged-recipes](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/staged-recipes))
+3. Check out the project [roadmap](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/roadmap)
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+## Get in touch
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+Discussions on pangeo-forge are generally hosted biweekly on Mondays at 7pm UTC via [Whereby](https://whereby.com/pangeo). More details on the scheduling of these meetings can be found [here](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/roadmap/issues/3).
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+## License
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+This project is licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://github.com/pangeo-forge/pangeo-forge/blob/master/LICENSE).