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-## My Project
+ # Building OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards
 
-TODO: Fill this README out!
+This repo contains the scripts for building OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards Docker images and packages for Linux distributions (RPM & DEB).
 
-Be sure to:
+## Contributing
 
-* Change the title in this README
-* Edit your repository description on GitHub
+OpenSearch is and will remain 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. As the project grows, we invite you to join the project and contribute. We want to make it easy for you to get started and remove friction -- no lengthy Contributor License Agreement -- so you can focus on writing great code. For more information [here](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-certificate-of-origin)
 
-## Security
+## Questions
 
-See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#security-issue-notifications) for more information.
+If you have any questions, please join our community forum [here](https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/)
 
-## License
+## Issues
 
-This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
+File any issues [here](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/issues).