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+Introduction
+============
+
+Python's documentation has long been considered to be good for a free
+programming language.  There are a number of reasons for this, the most
+important being the early commitment of Python's creator, Guido van Rossum, to
+providing documentation on the language and its libraries, and the continuing
+involvement of the user community in providing assistance for creating and
+maintaining documentation.
+
+The involvement of the community takes many forms, from authoring to bug reports
+to just plain complaining when the documentation could be more complete or
+easier to use.
+
+This document is aimed at authors and potential authors of documentation for
+Python.  More specifically, it is for people contributing to the standard
+documentation and developing additional documents using the same tools as the
+standard documents.  This guide will be less useful for authors using the Python
+documentation tools for topics other than Python, and less useful still for
+authors not using the tools at all.
+
+If your interest is in contributing to the Python documentation, but you don't
+have the time or inclination to learn reStructuredText and the markup structures
+documented here, there's a welcoming place for you among the Python contributors
+as well.  Any time you feel that you can clarify existing documentation or
+provide documentation that's missing, the existing documentation team will
+gladly work with you to integrate your text, dealing with the markup for you.
+Please don't let the material in this document stand between the documentation
+and your desire to help out!
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