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 Welcome to Apache Steve <http://steve.apache.org/>
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Apache Steve is software to conduct a vote using the STV (Single
Transferrable Vote) and other voting algorithms. The tool grew out of the voting
system used to elect the Apache Software Foundation Board of
Directors.

Read more about STV at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

Getting Started
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Getting Started documentation can be found at: http://steve.apache.org/demo.html
Otherwise, come to the #apache-steve channel on the Freenode IRC network, 
and we'd be glad to help you.


License (see also LICENSE.txt)
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Collective work: Copyright 2012-2013 The Apache Software Foundation.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.


Documentation
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Documentation may be found at http://steve.apache.org/documentation.html

Contributions to the documentation are very welcome.

Mailing Lists
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Discussion about Steve takes place on the following mailing lists:

    dev@steve.apache.org    - About using Steve and developing Steve

Notification on all code changes are sent to the following mailing list:

    commits@steve.apache.org

The mailing lists are open to anyone and publicly archived.

You can subscribe the mailing lists by sending a message to
<LIST>-subscribe@steve.apache.org (for example
dev-subscribe@steve...).  To unsubscribe, send a message to
<LIST>-unsubscribe@steve.apache.org.  For more instructions, send a
message to <LIST>-help@steve.apache.org.

Additional mailing list details may be found at
http://steve.apache.org/support.html

Issue Tracker
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If you encounter errors in Steve or want to suggest an improvement or a new
feature, please visit the Steve issue tracker at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STEVE

Implemented changes
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Implemented changes can be found at:
    https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/steve/