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+# skulls - TODO list
+
+## the random list
+* make it easy to install HEADS, probably a helper script and documentation
+* add scripts to build a release reproducibly
+* find legal information on Intel's VGA bios binary
+* create a logo for the project
+* add support for the X1 carbon, 1st generation
+
+## why this list
+While we use [Github issue](https://github.com/merge/skulls/issues) for tracking
+TODOs, we want to be somewhat independent of Github. The main repository is
+mirrored to [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/skulls/skulls) for example.
+This should hold a summary of high-level things that we want to do.