diff --git a/_includes/intro.md b/_includes/intro.md
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----
-layout: page
-title: About SIGMathLing
----
 SIGMathLing is a forum and resource cooperative for the linguistics of mathematical/technical documents. It [aims at](/objectives/)
 
 1. getting together researchers and application developers interested in maths linguistics to create a critical mass.
diff --git a/_includes/sidebar.html b/_includes/sidebar.html
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     </div>
 
     <nav class="sidebar-nav">
-      {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/"            title="Home" %},
-      {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/about/"      title="SIGMathLing" %},<br/>
+      {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/"            title="Home" %},<br/>
       {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/documents/"      title="Documents"%}, 
       {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/resources/"      title="Resources"%},<br/>
       {% include sidebar-nav-item.html url="/development/"      title="Development" %}, 
diff --git a/charter-short.md b/charter-short.md
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-# SIGMathLing charter - short version
-
-## 1. Purpose/Objectives
-SIGMathLing organizes a community of researchers and developers in Math Lingusitics with the following objectives:
-  <<see objectives.md>>
-
-## 2. Members
-Any individual involved in research and application development in math linguistics can join SIGMathLing, provided they agree to 
-1. a flexible NDA (all resources stay inside SIGMathLing and are used only for research purposes, unless the licenses explicitly allow so).
-2. contributing (all?) their linguistic resources into SIGMathLing
-3. opening up their analysis results to the others
-4. upon cessation of membership, the NDA terminates and all SIGMathLing-internal data is permanently deleted. 
-
-## 3. Governance
-SIGMathLing is an informal member organization, decisions are made by the bi-annual, online members meeting. Inbetween these, an elected executive commitee conducts day-to-day business (transparently informing the members where possible). All discussion is conducted or documented via public (or where necessary private) online channels. 
diff --git a/charter.md b/charter.md
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 layout: page
 title: SIGMathLing charter
 ---
-See the [charter summary](charter-short) over an overview without operational details.
 
 ## 1. Purpose/Objectives
 SIGMathLing organizes a community of researchers and developers in Math Lingusitics with the following [objectives](/objectives/):
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
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 title: SIGMathLing Home
 ---
 
-{% include about.md %}
+{% include intro.md %}
 
+[Services](/services), [technical considerations](/technical/), [linguistic resources](/resources). 
 ## News ([older news](news/)); 
 
 {% for post in site.posts %}
diff --git a/resources.md b/resources.md
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+---
+layout: page
+title: SIGMathLing Resources
+---
+
+none yet, but see the [plan](/techical/)