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-# GitHub Guides
+# Open Source Handbook
 
-[GitHub Guides](https://guides.github.com/) are highly approachable tutorials about a larger idea or product feature on GitHub. They not only explain how to accomplish a task, but also why you’d want to, and how that task fits into the larger story of using GitHub as a whole.
+This handbook is a collection of resources to help individual, communities, and companies sustainably embrace open source software. It explains not only how to accomplish a task, but why you’d want to, and how that task fits into the larger story of consuming, contributing to, and producing open source software.
 
-## What are the components that form a guide?
+This handbook aims to foster healthy open source communities, and provide a canonical place for the community to discuss and codify best practices into highly-approachable resources.
 
-For a deep-dive into the way a guide should be authored, take a look at the [GitHub Guides Content Model](https://manual-of-style.githubapp.com/guides-model) (another [GitHub Content Model](https://manual-of-style.githubapp.com/content-model) Joint).
+## Contributing
 
-## Other forms of user assistance
-
-**training.github.com/kit:** Materials for individuals who want to deliver full-length lessons about Git or GitHub.
-
-**help.github.com:** Discrete articles that get existing users unstuck and back to work (yes, Virginia - [there's a content model for that](https://manual-of-style.githubapp.com/help-model), too!).
-
-## Installation
-
-Clone this repository, then run some handy scripts to get going!
-
-```
-git clone https://github.com/github/guides
-cd guides
-script/setup
-script/server
-```
-
-## Contributing a new guide
-
-[CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) has everything you need to know to propose a new guide (or an update to an existing one!).
-
-## Deployment
-
-Deploying to production is as simple as merging your branch into the `gh-pages` branch. :tada:
-
-Deploying to staging requires a Chat account and Hubot. Run `.deploy guides/YOUR-BRANCH to staging` just like you normally would and visit https://guides-staging.githubapp.com to preview your changes!
-
-## Questions?
-
-Ping the **@github/guides team** (or just pop into **+The Guides Room** in good old Campfire - we'll dazzle you with random emoji :peach::fuelpump:).
+This handbook aims to reflect community best practices. Check out [CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) for ways to offer feedback and contribute.