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+=====================================================
+|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
+=====================================================
+
+|cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
+that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
+components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
+principles.
+
+Main Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model
+  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,
+
+* a query language named :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL,
+
+* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
+  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,
+
+* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that
+  fulfill common needs,
+
+* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,
+
+* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial
+  for storage backends.
+
+Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
+daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution
+for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
+efficiency.
+
+QuickStart
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.
+
+Social
+~~~~~~
+
+*   Chat on the `jabber forum`_
+*   Discuss on the `mailing-list`_
+*   Discover on the `blog`_
+*   Contribute on the forge_
+
+
+.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
+.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
+.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
+.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
+.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
+.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238
+
+
+Narrative Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A.k.a. "The Book"
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   book/intro/index
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 3
+
+   book/devrepo/index
+   book/devweb/index
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   book/admin/index
+   book/additionnal_services/index
+   book/annexes/index
+
+Tutorial
+~~~~~~~~
+
+We present two tutorials of different levels. The blog building
+tutorial introduces one smoothly to the basic concepts.
+
+Then there is a photo gallery construction tutorial which highlights
+more advanced concepts such as unit tests, security settings,
+migration scripts.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :numbered:
+
+   tutorials/base/index
+   tutorials/advanced/index
+   tutorials/tools/windmill.rst
+   tutorials/textreports/index
+
+
+Reference documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 1
+
+    js_api/index
+
+Indexes
+~~~~~~~
+
+* the :ref:`genindex`,
+* the :ref:`modindex`,