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 # Go Micro [![License](https://img.shields.io/:license-apache-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro) [![Travis CI](https://api.travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/micro/go-micro)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/micro/go-micro)
 
-Go Micro is a pluggable RPC framework for **microservices**. It provides the fundamental building blocks for writing distributed systems. It is part of the [Micro](https://github.com/micro/micro) toolkit.
+Go Micro is a pluggable RPC framework for **microservices**. It simplifies building distributed systems and is part of the [Micro](https://github.com/micro/micro) toolkit.
 
 The **Micro** philosophy is sane defaults with a pluggable architecture. We provide defaults to get you started quickly but everything can be easily swapped out. It comes with built in support for {json,proto}-rpc encoding, consul or multicast dns for service discovery, http for communication and random hashed client side load balancing.
 
 Everything in go-micro is **pluggable**. You can find and contribute to plugins at [github.com/micro/go-plugins](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins).
 
+Follow us on Twitter at [@MicroHQ](https://twitter.com/microhq), join the [Slack](https://micro-services.slack.com) community [here](http://slack.micro.mu/) or 
+check out the [Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microhq).
+
 ## Features
 
-Go Micro abstracts way the details of distributed systems and makes building microservices simple. Beneath the covers it provides a number of features.
+Go Micro abstracts way the details of distributed systems. Here are the main features.
 
-**Service Discovery** - Applications are automatically registered with service discovery so they can locate each other.
+**Service Discovery** - Applications are automatically registered with service discovery so they can find each other.
 
 **Load Balancing** - Smart client side load balancing is used to balance requests between instances of a service.
 
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 Check out the blog post to learn how to write go-micro services [https://blog.micro.mu/2016/03/28/go-micro.html](https://blog.micro.mu/2016/03/28/go-micro.html) or watch the talk from the [Golang UK Conf 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xspaDovwk34).
 
-## Join The Community
-
-There's a growing community on Slack with hundreds of members and a mailing list for those that prefer the classic method of communication.
-
-Join us to discuss, learn and contribute:
-
-- [Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microhq) 
-- [Slack](https://micro-services.slack.com) : [Invite](http://slack.micro.mu/)
-
 ## Getting Started
 
 This is a quick getting started guide with the greeter service example.
@@ -295,18 +289,6 @@ By default go-micro only provides a few implementation of each interface at the
 
 ## Sponsors
 
+Open source development of Micro is sponsored by Sixt
+
 <a href="https://blog.micro.mu/2016/04/25/announcing-sixt-sponsorship.html"><img src="https://micro.mu/sixt_logo.png" width=150px height="auto" /></a>
-
-## Next steps
-
-- [Examples](https://github.com/micro/go-micro/tree/master/examples)
-- [Micro Toolkit](https://github.com/micro/micro)
-- Join the [Slack](https://micro-services.slack.com)! - [Invite Here](http://slack.micro.mu/)
-
-
-## Contributing
-
-- Checkout the issues list [github.com/micro/go-micro/issues](https://github.com/micro/go-micro/issues)
-- Join the Slack to discuss the roadmap
-- PR plugins to [github.com/micro/go-plugins](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins)
-- Write example services for others to use