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+ARIA Website
+============
+
+|Build Status| |Appveyor Build Status| |License| |PyPI release| |Python Versions| |Wheel|
+|Contributors| |Open Pull Requests| |Closed Pull Requests|
+
+This is the Repository for the ARIATOSCA project's Website.  
+
+The site is published as `www.ariatosca.org <https://www.ariatosca.org/>`__
+
+What is ARIA?
+-------------
+
+`ARIA <http://ariatosca.incubator.apache.org/>`__ is a an open-source,
+`TOSCA <https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca/>`__-based, lightweight library and CLI for
+orchestration and for consumption by projects building TOSCA-based solutions for resources and
+services orchestration.
+
+ARIA can be utilized by any organization that wants to implement TOSCA-based orchestration in its
+solutions, whether a multi-cloud enterprise application, or an NFV or SDN solution for multiple
+virtual infrastructure managers.
+
+With ARIA, you can utilize TOSCA's cloud portability out-of-the-box, to develop, test and run your
+applications, from template to deployment.
+
+ARIA is an incubation project under the `Apache Software Foundation <https://www.apache.org/>`__.
+
+
+Contribution
+------------
+
+You are welcome and encouraged to participate and contribute to the ARIA project including its website.
+
+Please see our guide to
+`Contributing to ARIA
+<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARIATOSCA/Contributing+to+ARIA>`__.
+
+Feel free to also provide feedback on the mailing lists (see `Resources <#user-content-resources>`__
+section).
+
+
+Code of Conduct
+---------------
+
+The ARIA TOSCA Project follows
+`the Apache Code of Conduct <https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html>`__.
+
+
+.. |Build Status| image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/apache/incubator-ariatosca/master.svg
+   :target: https://travis-ci.org/apache/incubator-ariatosca
+.. |Appveyor Build Status| image:: https://img.shields.io/appveyor/ci/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/incubator-ariatosca/master.svg
+   :target: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/incubator-ariatosca/history
+.. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/license/apache/incubator-ariatosca.svg
+   :target: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+.. |PyPI release| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/apache-ariatosca.svg
+   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-ariatosca
+.. |Python Versions| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/apache-ariatosca.svg
+.. |Wheel| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/apache-ariatosca.svg
+.. |Contributors| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/apache/incubator-ariatosca.svg
+.. |Open Pull Requests| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/issues-pr/apache/incubator-ariatosca.svg
+   :target: https://github.com/apache/incubator-ariatosca/pulls
+.. |Closed Pull Requests| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/issues-pr-closed-raw/apache/incubator-ariatosca.svg
+   :target: https://github.com/apache/incubator-ariatosca/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed