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-
 Welcome to the SimGrid project!
 
-Up-to-date documentation about installation and how to use SimGrid is available
-online at http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/ and the documentation for the version
-you downloaded is available in the doc/ directory. Check doc/index.html for more
-information.
+SimGrid is a scientific instrument to study the behavior of 
+large-scale distributed systems such as Grids, Clouds, HPC or P2P
+systems. It can be used to evaluate heuristics, prototype applications 
+or even assess legacy MPI applications.
 
-In case of trouble, you can additionnally try to have a look to our user
-mailing-list ( http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/simgrid-user ) or
-post us a mail.
+More documentation is included in this archive (doc/html/index.html)
+or online at http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/ 
 
-Thanks for downloading our software,
+In any case, you may want to subscribe to the user mailing list 
+(http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/simgrid-user). There,
+you can find answers to your questions, or simply discuss with people
+doing the same kind of research than you do, in an active and friendly
+community.
 
-Cheers,
+Thanks for using our software. Please do great things with it and tell
+the world about it. Tell us, too, because we love to have positive
+feedback.
 
+Cheers,
 Da SimGrid Team.