dotnet-core/README.md

# .NET Core Home

The dotnet/core repository is a good starting point for .NET Core. 

## Learn about .NET Core 

* [Learn about .NET Core](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core)
* [.NET Core Roadmap](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/roadmap.md)
* [Learn how about the .NET platform](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/standard/)

## Download .NET Core

* [Released builds](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archive.md)
* [.NET Core release notes](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/README.md)
* .NET Core 2.0 daily builds: 
  * [.NET Core SDK 2.0 preview3](https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/release/2.0.0/README.md#installers-and-binaries)
  * [.NET Core Runtime 2.0 preview3](https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup/blob/release/2.0.0/README.md#officially-released-builds)
* .NET Core 2.1 daily builds:
  * [.NET Core SDK 2.1 preview1](https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/master/README.md#installers-and-binaries)
  * [.NET Core Runtime 2.1 preview1](https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup/blob/master/README.md#daily-builds)

## Getting help

* [File a general .NET Core issue](https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues)
* [File a more specific issue](Documentation/core-repos.md)
* [Ask on Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask)
* [Contact Microsoft Support](https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/)

## How to Engage, Contribute and Provide Feedback

The .NET Core team encourages [contributions](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/project-docs/contributing.md), both issues and PRs. The first step is finding the [.NET Core repository](Documentation/core-repos.md) that you want to contribute to.

## .NET Foundation

The .NET Core platform is part of the [.NET Foundation](http://www.dotnetfoundation.org).

## Licenses

.NET Core platform projects typically use either the [MIT](LICENSE.TXT) or
[Apache 2](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) licenses for code.
Some projects license documentation and other forms of content under
[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

See specific projects to understand the license used.