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 === Getting Selectricity ======================
 ===============================================
 
-Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the MIT or
-BSD-like ExPat license. You are free to use, modify, and distribute, or
-rework Selectricity. Of course, we'd sure like it if you would send
-fixes back to us and tell us about cool stuff you do with our software!
+Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the GNU Affero
+General Public License version 3. You are free to use, modify, and
+distribute, or rework Selectricity under the terms of that license. Of
+course, we'd sure like it if you would send fixes back to us and tell us
+about cool stuff you do with our software!
 
 The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source
-source repository. You'll need the Git version control system or
-source control manager to check it. You can get it here:
+tree.  At the moment, we're hosting our code at Gitorious which is a
+free software hosting provider. You can download Gitorious at the
+project page by following detailed instructions at Gitorious:
 
-  http://git-scm.com/
+  http://gitorious.org/selectricity
 
-Once you have it, getting the source code is pretty easy. You just need
-to check out a branch with a command like this:
 
-  git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity/.git
+===============================================
+=== Getting Help and Contributing =============
+===============================================
+
+If you have a question, you can always email the core team at:
+
+  team@selectricity.org
+
+If you want to get involved in development, want to discuss
+selectricity, or want to participate, please subscribe to our mailing
+list here:
 
-This will give you the latest *development* version of our code. If you
-want the latest production version (i.e., what we're running on the
-site), you can grab that here:
+  http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/selectricity
+
+In terms of bugs and documentation, we current plan to build this out in
+our Gitorious wiki so feel free to get started with your own efforts
+along these lines there:
+
+  http://gitorious.org/selectricity/pages/Home
 
-  git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity-live/.git
 
 ===============================================
 === Dependencies ==============================
 ===============================================
 
 To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
-addition to Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and its dependencies:
+addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its
+dependencies:
 
  * rmagick
  * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff)
@@ -45,7 +59,8 @@ Also, you will need install the other applications installed first:
  * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
 
 On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with: 
-  apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin
+  apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin rdoc \
+  libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev
 
 Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an
 Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy.
@@ -54,35 +69,14 @@ You'll also need to have a MTA installed. We use Postfix and have not
 tried it with any other system. Presumably though, anything that
 provides '/usr/bin/sendmail' should work.
 
+
+
 ===============================================
 === Contributors to Selectricity Include ======
 ===============================================
 
  * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
  * John Dong          <jdong@ubuntu.com>
- * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@mit.edu>
-
-=====================================
-=== XML-RPC INFO                    ==
-======================================
-
-The XML-RPC API is still under development, but is somewhat functional already:
-
-To instantiate a client in Ruby, try something like:
-client=ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(SelectricityAPI,"http://localhost:3000/selectricity_service/vote")
-
-
-Getting the results of a quickvote is quite simple:
-?> client.get_quickvote_results("test")
-=> #<VoteResultStruct:0x336f92c @approval_winners=[1, 2], @borda_winners=[1], @plurality_winners=[1], @ssd_winners=[1], @errors=[], @condorcet_winners=[1]>
-
-Casting a quickvote:
-client.cast_quickvote("test",1,[[1,2]])
-
-To figure out what you're voting for:
->> client.get_quickvote_candidate_map("test")=> #<CandidateMap:0x335bbc0 @errors=[], @candidate_names=["test", "test2"], @candidate_ids=[1, 2]>
-
-
-
+ * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@alum.mit.edu>