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+Contributed Modules Repository
+
+The purpose of this repository is to provide a home for third party contributed
+modules to FreePBX. There are many modules in FreePBX which of course have all
+been contributed in one form or another. When a module makes it into the main
+project it represents a level of comittment and responsibility on the core team
+to maintain and support those modules whether the original authors are still
+active or not. There are also considerations in the future architectural plans
+of FreePBX that sometimes keep new modules form being included in Core because
+we know that upcoming changes will severely break them and create major transition
+problems.
+
+However, there are a lot of good and very useful modules that people have developed
+and continue to develop for FreePBX and the desire of the project is to support
+such development efforts and provide a location where users can go to obtain the
+modules. This is the starting point for that effort and as time progresses there
+will be efforts in place to support multiple online repositories so that the
+FreePBX Module Admin system can be used to install and update such modules.
+
+For now, the solution is a manual solution. You can either do an svn pull of
+the desired module or grab the tarball for that module. Which ever form you
+take, the installation of a new module is very straight forward in FreePBX.
+
+1. Load the module (explode the tarball) in the module directory which by default
+   is /var/www/html/admin/modules
+2. Got to Module Admin where you will see the Module as "Locally Available" and
+   from there you can install it.
+
+Note - using such modules is at your own risk and support is limitted to places
+like the FreePBX forums or other options that may be available from the author.
+
+If you have a module that you want to include, you should contact a core FreePBX
+developer or simply submit the module as a tarball in the ticket system as a
+new module. We will then get it into the repository. Very soon we will have new
+abilities to give authors of these modules access to this part of the repository
+so they can maintain the modules.