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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Visit [nix.dev](https://nix.dev) for [installation instructions](https://nix.dev
 
 Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual).
 
-## Building And Developing
+## Building and developing
 
 See our [Hacking guide](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.html) in our manual for instruction on how to
  set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
@@ -22,12 +22,17 @@ See our [Hacking guide](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacki
 
 Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
 
-## Additional Resources
+## Additional resources
 
-- [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual)
-- [Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org](https://hydra.nixos.org/project/nix)
-- [NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
-- [Matrix - #nix:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
+Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis [The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model](https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf), published 2006.
+Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
+
+- [The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org](https://nixos.org/)
+- [Official documentation on nix.dev](https://nix.dev)
+- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)
+- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
+- [Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
+- [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
 
 ## License