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+The MIT License (MIT)
+Copyright (c) 2018 Paul van Tilburg
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
+the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+subject to the following conditions:
+
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+# Wishlists
+
+A [Rocket](https://rocket.rs) based web application written in Rust for
+maintaining a board of wishlists for a family or group of friends. 
+Similarly to a Wiki, all lists can be edited by everyone, as a board with
+physical lists would also allow.
+
+## Building
+
+Because Rocket still requires a nightly version of Rust, Wishlist also
+requires it.  The application has been tested with `nightly-2017-12-21`.
+
+Wishlists uses a customized Bootstrap-style, to compile this, the
+Ruby implementation of Sass 
+
+```
+$ gem install sass
+...
+$ scss static/scss/wishlists.scss:static/csss/wishlists.css
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+The lists are stored as plain text files (in Markdown format) under the
+`lists` subdirectory.  As an administrator of the application, you should
+touch a file with the extension `.list` in this subdirectory to create
+lists.  The resulting list names are the title cased version of the snake
+cased filenames.  For example to create a list for "John Doe":
+
+```
+$ touch lists/john_doe.list
+```
+
+After creating new lists, start (or restart) the application and then visit:
+http://localhost:8000/.
+
+For setting up production or staging environments, see the
+[Rocket documentation](https://rocket.rs/guide/configuration/) about
+configuring different environments.
+
+## To Do
+
+There are still quite some things left to do.  Here are some points of
+improvement for the future:
+
+* Use a Rust-implementation for Sass
+* Support different sets of lists (for different environments)
+* Get rid of hardcoded strings in the UI (for example the name of my family)
+* Add i18n to support several languages
+* Support locking a list while editing it in the client so other clients
+  cannot edit it
+
+## License
+
+Wishlists is licensed under the MIT license
+([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).