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-Contributors to Selectricity Include:
+===============================================
+=== Getting Selectricity ======================
+===============================================
+
+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 repository. You'll need the Git version control system or
+source control manager to check it. You can get it here:
+
+  http://git-scm.com/
+
+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
+
+By default, this will create a working copy with the latest
+*development* version of our code. If you want the latest production
+version (i.e., what we're running on the site), you need to switch to
+the live version of the software which is kept in a branch called
+"live." Once you cloned the repository above, you can switch into the
+directory (i.e., run "cd selectricity") and then run the following
+command:
+
+  git checkout -b live origin/live
+
+
+===============================================
+=== 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:
+
+  http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/selectricity
+
+
+===============================================
+=== Dependencies ==============================
+===============================================
+
+To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
+addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its
+dependencies:
+
+ * rmagick
+ * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff)
+ * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines)
+
+To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the
+following gems:
+
+ * ruby-debug
+
+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 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.
+
+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>
-
-07/31/07
-jlsharps: I've added a user authentication system known as
-"acts_as_authenticated" to the code. The plugin is the the vendor/plugins 
-directory. The two most noticeable changes are the AccountController and a 
-redone User model. I've left the UserController in place for now, but the 
-AccountController works in a different manner, so am switching over to that 
-gradually. I saved the 5 lines or so in the old User model, overwrote 
-it with the authenticated generator and then recopied the old stuff back in: 
-has_many :elections and the name() method. The generator also creates its own 
-migration file, but since we are using a create.sql file I adopted the 
-migration file into a new users table in the create.sql file. I have yet to 
-delete the old table because I haven't fully combed through the code yet and 
-determined how many of the old attributes (such as first_name, last_name) may 
-need to be retained. 
-http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/show/Acts+as+Authenticated is the 
-best site for documentation regarding acts_as_authenticaed. Also, currently
-it only stores the user_id in the session, but i just found a guide to help 
-me make it store the entire user object, so I'll do that while my battery 
-charges.
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+ * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@alum.mit.edu>
+
+