From 85dc1032dc52c3baaea8fdfc89de3f6211bac093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Lipe <robertlipe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 02:21:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update toplevel README.md.

 include badges for build status, remove code.google.com reference
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 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # GPSBabel
 This is the source code for [GPSBabel](https://www.gpsbabel.org), the free software project to manage GPS data (waypoints, tracks, routes) in your GPSes or in related programs.
 
+# Welcome newbie open source contributors!
+
+[![Pull Requests Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat)](http://makeapullrequest.com)
+We have an (https://github.com/gpsbabel/gpsbabel/edit/master)(GPSBabel internals guide).</br> 
+Current status of the trunk build is [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/gpsbabel/gpsbabel.svg?branch=master)]. Passing is good.</br>
+
+If you aren't a programmer or a writer, we need help with gear, hosting costs, tool license prices, etc. (https://www.gpsbabel.org/contribute.html)(Please support GPSBabel).
+<!-- consider sites like forthebadge.com for others -->
+
+
+<!--
 ## News
 We moved the source here on July 31, 2015 because [Google Code is shutting
 down](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html) and
@@ -10,6 +21,7 @@ As a result, some of our doc with our last release will now point to links on
 [code.google.com](https://code.google.com) that will no longer work.
 If you find doc that is out of date, please let us know.
 (Better yet, please send pull requests with fixes.)
+-->
 
 Chief Babel-Head
 [@robertlipe](https://github.com/robertlipe)
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