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+registrasion-demo
+=================
+
+PinaxCon
+---------
+`PinaxCon` is a working demo of Symposion and the Symposion Starter Project. It usually lives at https://github.com/pinax/PinaxCon
+
+This is a fork of PinaxCon to demonstrate Registrasion, a registration package that works well with Symposion. You can find Registrasion at https://github.com/chrisjrn/registrasion
+
+Registrasion has relaively complete docs at http://registrasion.readthedocs.org
+
+
+What is the point of this?
+--------------------------
+This project provides some starter templates for much of the functionality of Registrasion, as well as demos of how to make payments and enter user profiles.
+
+If you care to, you can also use this project as a starting point for your own Registrasion-based site.