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+      Copyright [2010] [Anso Labs, LLC]
+ 
+      Licensed 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.
+
+
+Welcome to nova's documentation!
+================================
+
+Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system) built to match the popular AWS EC2 and S3 APIs. 
+It is written in Python, using the Tornado and Twisted frameworks, and relies on the standard AMQP messaging protocol, 
+and the Redis distributed KVS.
+Nova is intended to be easy to extend, and adapt. For example, it currently uses 
+an LDAP server for users and groups, but also includes a fake LDAP server,
+that stores data in Redis. It has extensive test coverage, and uses the 
+Sphinx toolkit (the same as Python itself) for code and user documentation.
+While Nova is currently in Beta use within several organizations, the codebase
+is very much under active development - there are bugs!
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+                   
+   getting.started  
+   architecture
+   network      
+   storage
+   auth  
+   compute
+   endpoint
+   nova
+   fakes
+   binaries
+   todo
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+