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Willem van Bergen 10 years ago
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 Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for Apache Kafka 0.8 (and later).
 Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for Apache Kafka 0.8 (and later).
 
 
-Documentation is available via godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/Shopify/sarama.
-Mocks for testing are available in the [mocks](mocks) subpackage.
+### Getting started
 
 
-There is a google group for Kafka client users and authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kafka-clients
+- API documentation and example are available via godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/Shopify/sarama.
+- Mocks for testing are available in the [mocks](./mocks) subpackage.
+- The [examples](./examples) directory contains more elaborate example applications.
+- There is a google group for Kafka client users and authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kafka-clients
+
+### Compatibility and API stability
 
 
 Sarama provides a "2 releases + 2 months" compatibility guarantee: we support the two latest releases of Kafka
 Sarama provides a "2 releases + 2 months" compatibility guarantee: we support the two latest releases of Kafka
 and Go, and we provide a two month grace period for older releases. This means we currently officially
 and Go, and we provide a two month grace period for older releases. This means we currently officially
 support Go 1.3 and 1.4, and Kafka 0.8.1 and 0.8.2.
 support Go 1.3 and 1.4, and Kafka 0.8.1 and 0.8.2.
 
 
-Sarama follows semantic versioning and provides API stability via the gopkg.in
-service. You can import a version with a guaranteed stable API via
-http://gopkg.in/Shopify/sarama.v1. A changelog is available
-[here](CHANGELOG.md).
+Sarama follows semantic versioning and provides API stability via the gopkg.in service.
+You can import a version with a guaranteed stable API via http://gopkg.in/Shopify/sarama.v1.
+A changelog is available [here](CHANGELOG.md).
+
+### Other
 
 
-Other related links:
+* [Sarama wiki](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/wiki) to get started hacking on sarama itself.
 * [Kafka Project Home](https://kafka.apache.org/)
 * [Kafka Project Home](https://kafka.apache.org/)
 * [Kafka Protocol Specification](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol)
 * [Kafka Protocol Specification](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol)