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+Overview
+--------
+
+Tipboard is a system for creating dashboards, written in JavaScript and Python.
+Its widgets ('tiles' in Tipboard's terminology) are completely separated from
+data sources, which provides great flexibility and relatively high degree of
+possible customizations.
+
+Because of its intended target (displaying various data and statistics in your
+office), it is optimized for larger screens.
+
+Similar projects: `Geckoboard <http://www.geckoboard.com/>`_,
+`Dashing <http://shopify.github.io/dashing/>`_.
+
+Project assumptions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+#. Defining a dashboard layout (number of lines, columns, types of tiles etc.).
+#. Clear separation between tiles and data sources.
+#. Ability to create own tiles and scripts querying data sources (e.g. Jira, Bamboo, Confluence etc.).
+#. Feeding tiles via REST API.