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+# Welcome to the "Shed"
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+A (or **the**) shed is a place to play, learn and maybe make something productive.
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+This one happens to be a complement to [Homelab Brisbane](https://homelabbrisbane.com.au/)'s community. You're probably reading this because you're involved in a conversation with another community member and you want to complement your conversation with some practical collaboration. Maybe you're talking about an `ansible` playbook, a `bash` script or a `docker-compose` configuration.
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+The loose convention is that the first level folder names correspond