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add more context on the README (#9871)

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the thesis is still the defining document with all the motivation and
explanations.
adding it here for greater visibility.

also more emphasis and clarity around the community aspect.
the hydra build job seems a bit arbitrary right there. may be better for
the contributing guide.
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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.
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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