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@@ -6,80 +6,46 @@ PyQtGraph
 
 A pure-Python graphics library for PyQt/PySide
 
-Copyright 2012 Luke Campagnola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
+Copyright 2017 Luke Campagnola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
 <http://www.pyqtgraph.org>
 
-Maintainer
-----------
+PyQtGraph is intended for use in mathematics / scientific / engineering applications.
+Despite being written entirely in python, the library is fast due to its
+heavy leverage of numpy for number crunching, Qt's GraphicsView framework for
+2D display, and OpenGL for 3D display.
 
-  * Luke Campagnola   <luke.campagnola@gmail.com>
-
-Contributors
-------------
-
-  * Megan Kratz
-  * Paul Manis
-  * Ingo Breßler
-  * Christian Gavin
-  * Michael Cristopher Hogg
-  * Ulrich Leutner
-  * Felix Schill
-  * Guillaume Poulin
-  * Antony Lee
-  * Mattias Põldaru
-  * Thomas S.
-  * Fabio Zadrozny
-  * Mikhail Terekhov
-  * Pietro Zambelli
-  * Stefan Holzmann
-  * Nicholas TJ
-  * John David Reaver
-  * David Kaplan
-  * Martin Fitzpatrick
-  * Daniel Lidstrom
-  * Eric Dill
-  * Vincent LeSaux
 
 Requirements
 ------------
 
   * PyQt 4.7+, PySide, or PyQt5
-  * python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.x
+  * python 2.7, or 3.x
   * NumPy
   * For 3D graphics: pyopengl and qt-opengl
   * Known to run on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
 
 Support
 -------
-
-  Post at the [mailing list / forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pyqtgraph)
+  
+  * Report issues on the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph/issues)
+  * Post questions to the [mailing list / forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pyqtgraph) or [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pyqtgraph)
 
 Installation Methods
 --------------------
 
+  * From pypi:  
+        `pip install pyqtgraph`
   * To use with a specific project, simply copy the pyqtgraph subdirectory
-      anywhere that is importable from your project. PyQtGraph may also be
-      used as a git subtree by cloning the git-core repository from github.
+    anywhere that is importable from your project. 
   * To install system-wide from source distribution:
         `$ python setup.py install`
   * For installation packages, see the website (pyqtgraph.org)
-  * On debian-like systems, pyqtgraph requires the following packages:
-        python-numpy, python-qt4 | python-pyside
-        For 3D support: python-opengl, python-qt4-gl | python-pyside.qtopengl
 
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-There are many examples; run `python -m pyqtgraph.examples` for a menu.
+The easiest way to learn pyqtgraph is to browse through the examples; run `python -m pyqtgraph.examples` for a menu.
+
+The official documentation lives at http://pyqtgraph.org/documentation
 
-Some (incomplete) documentation exists at this time.
-  * Easiest place to get documentation is at <http://www.pyqtgraph.org/documentation>
-  * If you acquired this code as a .tar.gz file from the website, then you can also look in
-      doc/html.
-  * If you acquired this code via GitHub, then you can build the documentation using sphinx.
-      From the documentation directory, run:
-          `$ make html`
-  
-Please feel free to pester Luke or post to the forum if you need a specific
-  section of documentation to be expanded.