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 Throughout the document you will find sections with the heading "CESSDA's Software Maturity Levels in RDD" in which we describe which of the SMLs we aim for and how we want to implement it.
 
 
+# FE-Onboarding
+This section focuses on the specific needs and requirements of developers new
+to the department. Please also refer to any of the general information on
+onboarding within the department, as well as the departmental mentoring
+program. This includes skills and tools developers  as well as a checklist of
+the basic repos and groups new developers should be granted access to. A list
+of relevant and useful mailing lists new developers ought to consider
+subscribing to is provided at the end of the section.
+
+## Skills & Tools
+Here you will find a list of skills and tools that a developer will likely
+need at one point or another during their tenure at FE. We assume a basic
+familiarity with basal technologies such as XML.
+- Ant
+- GitLab CI/CD
+- Implementation of DARIAH-AAI
+- Puppet
+- Docker
+- Exist
+- (Lucene-)Indices
+- SADE
+
+## Repos & Groups
+- The departmental group at github: `https://github.com/subugoe/teams/fe`
+- The departmental group at GitLab.gwdg.de: `https://gitlab.gwdg.de/fe`
+- The SUB-wide group at GitLab.gwdg.de: `https://gitlab.gwdg.de/subugoe`
+
+<br/>
+
+- DARIAH-wikispace SUB-GWDG-IT
+- (probably further project-related wikispaces)
+- Kanboard-user group FE
+
+## Mailing Lists
+- eXist-db (eXist open mailing list)
+- de-RSE
+- RfII
+- relevant TEI-lists
+
+## Further Reading
+- RDD Technical Reference: https://github.com/subugoe/rdd-technical-reference
+- DH-FE-Zoterobibliothek
+- Heise, Golem, etc.
+
+
 # Style Guides
 
 ## General