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+<center><h1>IMFestival SMS Dashboard</h1></center>
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+### What is this repository?
+
+This repository holds the SMS notification system for IMFestival, featuring a web dashboard along with containerization files (`Dockerfile` and `docker-compose.yml`) for easy deployment.
+
+## How to use the dashboard
+The dashboard will allow the upload of a CSV file that contains the user's name, email, workshop name and times.
+
+You can use the dashboard to schedule messages for delivery to selected users at specific times. Message content can be configured directly within the dashboard and supports the placeholders {name} for the recipient's name, {workshop} for the workshop name, and {workshop_time} for the workshop time. 
+
+## Considerations
+The character limit needs to check against the longest workshop name to ensure the limit isn't misrespresented.
+
+### Python Dependencies
+- numpy
+- dateutil
+- pandas