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 <title>The Yocto Project Development Manual</title>
 
-<para>
-    WRITER NOTE: The goal of this manual is to provide an over-arching development guide for using the Yocto Project.  
-    The intent is to give the reader the “big picture” around development.  
-    Much of the information in the manual will be detailed in other manuals.  
-    For example, detailed information on Git, repositories and open-source in general can be found in many places.  
-    Another example is getting set up to use the Yocto Project, which our Yocto Project Quick Start covers.  
-    However, this manual needs to at least address it.  
-    One might ask “What becomes of the Poky Reference Manual?”  
-    This manual, over time, needs to develop into a pure reference manual where all procedural information 
-    eventually ends up in an appropriate guide.   
-    A good example of information perfect for the Poky Reference Manual is the appendix on variable 
-    definitions (glossary).
-</para>
+    <para>
+        Welcome to the Yocto Project Development Manual!
+        This manual gives you an idea of how to use the Yocto Project to develop embedded Linux 
+        images and user-space applications to run on targeted devices. 
+        Reading this manual gives you an overview of image, kernel, and user-space application development
+        using the Yocto Project. 
+        Because much of the information in this manual is general, it contains many references to other
+        sources where you can find more detail.
+        For example, detailed information on Git, repositories and open-source in general can be found in many places.  
+        Another example is how to get set up to use the Yocto Project, which our Yocto Project Quick Start covers.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>  
+        The Yocto Project Development Manual, however, does provide detailed examples on how to create a 
+        Board Support Package (BSP), change the kernel source code, and re-configure the kernel.
+        You can find this information in the appendices of the manual.
+    </para>
 
 <section id='intro'>
     <title>Introduction</title>