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-The new version of droneshare - built upon the DroneAPI.  Please see our [welcome letter](WELCOME.md).
+DroneShare is a shared repository of drone missions. It was conceived by @geeksville with the idea of having an easier way of sharing logs, and it eventually grew into the current state. The backend server behind this is called DroneKit-Cloud, which is part of DroneKit by 3D Robotics.
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+This is new version of droneshare - built upon DroneKit.  Please see our [welcome letter](WELCOME.md). 
 
 ## Developers guide