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 Collaborative design of the JupiterColony landing page, a repository for the site and for design documents/goals.
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+Notes
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+Both active branches welcome merge requests tha make sense. @rikai and @ChrisLAS have final say on design decisions.
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+* The master branch will contain style and content documents to help focus the direction, as this is a community effort.
+* The gh_pages branch contains the actual site, and is what pull requests for changes to the live site should be filed against.