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-# oni
-home of Project Oni (rigorous network soundness validation)
+# Project Oni 👹
+
+**_Status: Bootstrapping... 🐣_**
+
+Our mandate is:
+
+> To verify the successful end-to-end outcome of the filecoin protocol and filecoin implementations, under a variety of real-world and simulated scenarios. 
+
+➡️  Find out more about our goals, requirements, execution plan, and team culture, in our [Project Description](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jYL--EWYpJhxT9bakYq7ZBGLQ9SB940Wd1lTDOAbNE).
+
+## Team composition
+
+* [@raulk](https://github.com/raulk) (Captain + TL)
+* [@nonsense](https://github.com/nonsense) (Testground TG + engineer)
+* [@robmat05](https://github.com/robmat05) (TPM)
+* [@yusefnapora](https://github.com/yusefnapora) (engineer and technical writer)
+* [@vyzo](https://github.com/vyzo) (engineer)
+* [@schomatis](https://github.com/schomatis) (advisor)