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+# About this branch
 
-# Open Source Event Manager - [osem.io](https://osem.io)
-![OSEM Logo](doc/osem-logo.png)
+Our goal is to run [upstream] OSEM without modifications to its codebase. We currently still make a few modifications in this interim branch:
 
-An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
+- [ ] Fix access to the version history of organization-level roles [#2654](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/2654)
+- [ ] Add setting to disable email notifications of comments [#3059](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3059)
+- [ ] Add surveys during CFP response [#3058](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3058)
+- [ ] Don’t automatically select a difficulty level [#3140](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3140)
+- [ ] Corrections to proposal help text [#3243](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3243)
+- [ ] Resolve inability to schedule events [#3244](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3244)
+- [ ] Fix bug in naming of Sentry release [#3330](https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pull/3330)
+- [ ] Restrict commercial management to organizers [`hide-commercials`](https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/osem/tree/hide-commercials)
+- [ ] Add notifications of user registrations [`abeb2eb`](https://github.com/SeaGL/osem/commit/abeb2eb051ae534dbb60262bd48e4e82e0d29053)
+- [ ] Configure deployment to Dokku [`4b88939`](https://github.com/SeaGL/osem/commit/4b889392f1af01d0ad081bd9157d6f6587c8fca6)
+- [ ] Work around [titusfortner/webdrivers#254](https://github.com/titusfortner/webdrivers/issues/254) [`33ac545`](https://github.com/SeaGL/osem/commit/33ac545e0ef2a5d16f75c2b273e80996fd821184)
 
-## Installation
-Please refer to our [installation guide](INSTALL.md).
+These divergences from upstream should be seen as a to-do list, where completing an item means either solving its need in a general way upstream, or adjusting our procedures to accommodate upstream’s existing capabilities or limitations.
 
-## How to contribute to OSEM
-Please refer to our [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+## Guidelines
 
-## Contact
-GitHub issues are the primary way for communicating about specific proposed changes to this project. If you have other questions feel free to subscribe to the [opensuse-web@opensuse.org](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-web/) mailinglist, all OSEM contributors are on that list! Additionally you can use #osem channel on [libera.chat IRC](https://libera.chat).
+Don’t develop on this branch. It follows upstream by regularly **rebasing** the above modifications. When a modification is no longer necessary, it will be dropped during the rebase. When there are no remaining modifications, this branch will be deleted.
+
+[upstream]: https://github.com/openSUSE/osem