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+# Welcome to cod!
+COD, or Conference Organizing Distribution, is an installation profile for 
+Drupal, that makes it easy to create a conference website with features 
+like event signup, session proposal, session voting/judging, session 
+selection/scheduling, and social networking prior to events. Read more 
+about COD's features on usecod.com and https://www.drupal.org/project/cod
+
+For the latest information related to the process of porting this
+installation profile to D8, be sure to see https://www.drupal.org/node/2605232
+
+For additional information about the D8 profile, including terminology we use,
+see https://github.com/drupal-cod/cod/blob/master/README.md
+
+## Ticket
+A means of qualifying registered users as conference event attendees. If payment
+is required for attending a conference event, the amount and different levels
+of discounts can be specified.