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 Pillow
 ======
 
-Pillow is a fork of the Python Imaging Library
+Pillow is a "friendly" fork of the Python Imaging Library. The goal is to see
+if any improvement can be made to the packaging situation(*) by opening up
+development to the "public".
+
+Please email: aclark@aclark.net if you'd like to help, or complain.
+
+(*)PIL has a bad reputation for not "playing nice" with other packages. It's
+kind of a long story, and you either know it by now or you don't. A better 
+explanation may come later.