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  * [The Extension Page](Extensions) has some additional tips on how to use the web-API.
 
 ## Developer Docs
- * [the docs/ directory]source:docs/ <-- most core doc is in the source tree here
- * [Capabilities](Capabilities): what are readcaps and writecaps and verifycaps, etc
+
+### Design of the System
+ * [TahoeLAFSBasics](http://code.google.com/p/nilestore/wiki/TahoeLAFSBasics) on the [NileStore](NileStore) Project's site. This document was written by someone from another project who hasn't really interacted with the Tahoe-LAFS developers much, but it is the best overall introduction to the design of Tahoe-LAFS.
+ * after that, look at the "Presentations / Papers", below, or at the "architecture.rst" file in the docs/ directory.
+
+### Presentations / Papers
+ * <http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf> presented at RSA 2010
+ * [Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem](http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf) presented at [Storage Security and Survivability '08](http://storagess.org/2008)
+ * [Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem](http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html) presented at
+   [PyCon2008](http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/),
+   providing an overview of the Tahoe-LAFS design, and the
+   [slides](http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip) (.zip) that
+   were used for the presentation
+ * [A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage](http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html) to be presented at [FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies](http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09)
+
+### How To Contribute To The Tahoe-LAFS Project
  * [How to review patches](PatchReviewProcess) <-- You can help!
  * [How to submit patches](Patches)
  * [coding standards](CodingStandards)
+
+### Cool New Ideas We're Working On
  * [Ostrom](Ostrom) is about how social networking and economics interact with distributed storage
- * [The Packaging page](Packaging) shows our current policy for how to re-use 3rd-party libraries and how to distribute Tahoe-LAFS to users.
  * [OneHundredYearCryptography](OneHundredYearCryptography)
 
+### More Details To Look Up While Working On Your Contribution
+ * [the docs/ directory]source:docs/ <-- most core doc is in the source tree here
+ * [Capabilities](Capabilities): what are readcaps and writecaps and verifycaps, etc
+ * [The Packaging page](Packaging) shows our current policy for how to re-use 3rd-party libraries and how to distribute Tahoe-LAFS to users.
+
 ## Tools
   * [tahoe-lafs-trac-stream](http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-trac-stream) mailing list is the way to receive lots of emails from trac
  * [ViewTickets](ViewTickets)