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 # Community
 
-The IPFS community is growing, and already has many resources.
-We ought to maintain them, build more, and improve all the things.
+The IPFS community is growing, and already has many resources. We ought to maintain them, build more, and improve all the things.
+
+This repository is for meta, non-code discussions (in the [issues](issues)) and for documents used by multiple repositories, such as the various Contributing guidelines. Our goals here are to work on resources that help us with:
 
 1. Building and Maintaining
   [Community Infrastructure](https://github.com/ipfs/infrastructure)