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+# Welcome
+
+This application is still in a pre-release state.
+That means it's very open to contributions, and we'd love to have your help!
+
+It also means that things are changing quickly, and lots of stuff is planned that's not quite done yet.
+If you would like to work on TaskChampion, please contact the developers (via the issue tracker) before spending a lot of time working on a pull request.
+Doing so may save you some wasted time and frustration!
+
+# Other Ways To Help
+
+The best way to help this project to grow is to help spread awareness of it.
+Tell your friends, post to social media, blog about it -- whatever works best!
+
+Other ideas;
+ * Improve the documentation where it's unclear or lacking some information
+ * Build and maintain tools that integrate with TaskChampion
+ * Devise a nice TaskChampion logo
+
+# Development Guide
+
+TaskChampion is a typical Rust application.
+To work on TaskChampion, you'll need to [install the latest version of Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).
+Once you've done that, run `cargo build` at the top level of this repository to build the binaries.
+This will build `task` and `taskchampion-sync-server` executables in the `./target/debug` directory.
+You can build optimized versions of these binaries with `cargo build --release`, but the performance difference in the resulting binaries is not noticeable, and the build process will take a long time, so this is not recommended.
+
+## Running Test
+
+It's always a good idea to make sure tests run before you start hacking on a project.
+Run `cargo test` from the top-level of this repository to run the tests.
+
+## Read the Source
+
+Aside from that, start reading the docs and the source to learn more!
+The book documentation explains lots of the concepts in the design of TaskChampion.
+It is linked from the README.
+
+There are three crates in this repository.
+You may be able to limit the scope of what you need to understand to just one crate.
+ * `taskchampion` is the core functionality of the application, implemented as a library
+ * `taskchampion-cli` implements the command-line interface (in `cli/`)
+ * `taskchampion-sync-server` implements the synchronization server (in `sync-server/`)
+ 
+ You can generate the documentation for the `taskchampion` crate with `cargo doc --release --open -p taskchampion`.
+ 
+ ## Making a Pull Request
+ 
+ We expect contributors to follow the [GitHub Flow](https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/).
+ Aside from that, we have no particular requirements on pull requests.
+ Make your patch, double-check that it's complete (tests? docs? documentation comments?), and make a new pull request.