docs: simple project messaging.

Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <[email protected]>
PR-URL: #24

README.md

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-Evented I/O for V8 javascript.
+io.js
 ===
 
+This repository began as a GitHub fork of
+[joyent/node](https://github.com/joyent/node) where contributions,
+releases, and contributorship are under an
+[open governance model](./CONTRIBUTING.md#governance).
+
+We intend to release, with increasing regularity, releases which are
+compatible with npm ecosystem that has been built to date for node.js.
+
 ### To build:
 
 Prerequisites (Unix only):