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diff --git a/docs/getting-started/index.rst b/docs/getting-started/index.rst
index 46e40de..88ba746 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/index.rst
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Getting started
===============
+Software Heritage has developed an infrastructure to collect, preserve,
+analyze and present software in source code form.
+
+You can :doc:`learn how to use its public API <api>`. Instead of using
+the public archive, you might want to :ref:`use a local installation
+<getting-started>` while developing clients.
+
+Contributions to Software Heritage’s own source code
+are very much welcome. You will need to take the time to :ref:`setup a
+developer environment <developer-setup>` before you can start.
+
.. this index file is used to force a hierarchy in the toctree,
even though these two files are in the parent directory
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:titlesonly:
../getting-started
../developer-setup
using-docker
api
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