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@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ The intent is to make it easier for developers and sensor manufacturers to map
 their sensors & actuators on top of supported hardware and to allow control of
 low level communication protocol by high level languages & constructs.
 
+The MRAA project is joining the Eclipse Foundation as an Eclipse IoT project.
+You can read more about this [here](https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-mraa).
+
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 Supported Boards