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+The [@devcontainers-community]'s mission is to be a **centralized source** for
+**well-maintained** features that are of **high-quality** similar to those of
+the official [@devcontainers] organization, but for more **popular tools and
+languages**.
+
+We want to avoid atrophy by investing into the _community-based_ approach to
+maintenance that has been successful in other communtiy orgainzations like
+[@asdf-community]. This means making it as easy as possible to contribute. 🤝
+
+This is, however, a _fallback option_ for languages and tools that do not have
+official awesome-tool/devcontainer-features or related repositories to
+self-maintain within that community. If you are an individual who is part of a
+popular tool, consider [authoring your own feature repository]! ❤️
+
+If you're interested in joining this organization, that's awesome! 🤩 Open a
+Discussion and let's chat! If you just want to add a new feature, check out our
+[feature contribution guide]! 🌟
+
+## Scope
+
+Here's some specific examples of things that are in scope for this organization:
+
+- Maintaining popular language features, ~~images~~ _maybe later_, and templates
+  that [@devcontainers] does not cover
+- Onboarding existing trusted community members who have maintained devcontainer
+  features, ~~images~~ _maybe later_, or templates
+- ~~Highlighting good community-authored documentation, features, images,
+  templates, and other content through an awesome list~~ _maybe at a later date_
+
+Besides these core goals, there's some other important things that are
+deliberatly omitted from the scope, and are better tackled elsewhere:
+
+- Writing or maintaining devcontainer-related documentation. This is best done
+  by individuals, but can be highlighted in an awesome list.
+- Maintaining forked versions of the official [@devcontainers] projects. If you
+  can improve the official product, that's better than a community fork!
+- Maintaining custom versions of existing officially provided
+  awesome-tool/devcontainer-thing projects from other organizations like
+  [rocker-org/devcontainer-features]. They've graciously taken on the
+  maintenance burden themselves, and we don't want to splinter the community. ❤️
+
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+[@devcontainers-community]: https://github.com/devcontainers-community
+[@devcontainers]: https://github.com/devcontainers
+[@asdf-community]: https://github.com/asdf-community
+[rocker-org/devcontainer-features]: https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features#readme
+[feature contribution guide]: https://github.com/devcontainers-community/features/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[authoring your own feature repository]: https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter#readme
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->