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-# libva
-Libva is an implementation for VA-API (VIdeo Acceleration API)
+#Libva Project
+
+Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)
+
+VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which
+provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities
+for video processing. It consists of a main library and
+driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware 
+vendor.
+
+If you would like to contribute to libva, check our [Contributing
+guide](https://github.com/01org/libva/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+We also recommend taking a look at the ['janitorial'
+bugs](https://github.com/01org/libva/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AJanitorial)
+in our list of open issues as these bugs can be solved without an
+extensive knowledge of libva.
+
+We would love to help you start contributing!
+
+The libva development team can be reached via our [mailing
+list](http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva) and on IRC
+in channel #intel-media on [Freenode](https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat).