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@@ -6,20 +6,25 @@ sarama
 
 Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for Apache Kafka 0.8 (and later).
 
-Documentation is available via godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/Shopify/sarama.
-Mocks for testing are available in the [mocks](mocks) subpackage.
+### Getting started
 
-There is a google group for Kafka client users and authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kafka-clients
+- API documentation and example are available via godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/Shopify/sarama.
+- Mocks for testing are available in the [mocks](./mocks) subpackage.
+- The [examples](./examples) directory contains more elaborate example applications.
+- There is a google group for Kafka client users and authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kafka-clients
+
+### Compatibility and API stability
 
 Sarama provides a "2 releases + 2 months" compatibility guarantee: we support the two latest releases of Kafka
 and Go, and we provide a two month grace period for older releases. This means we currently officially
 support Go 1.3 and 1.4, and Kafka 0.8.1 and 0.8.2.
 
-Sarama follows semantic versioning and provides API stability via the gopkg.in
-service. You can import a version with a guaranteed stable API via
-http://gopkg.in/Shopify/sarama.v1. A changelog is available
-[here](CHANGELOG.md).
+Sarama follows semantic versioning and provides API stability via the gopkg.in service.
+You can import a version with a guaranteed stable API via http://gopkg.in/Shopify/sarama.v1.
+A changelog is available [here](CHANGELOG.md).
+
+### Other
 
-Other related links:
+* [Sarama wiki](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/wiki) to get started hacking on sarama itself.
 * [Kafka Project Home](https://kafka.apache.org/)
 * [Kafka Protocol Specification](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol)