diff --git a/distro/INSTALL b/distro/INSTALL
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index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/distro/MAINTAINERS b/distro/MAINTAINERS
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index d43c386..0000000
--- a/distro/MAINTAINERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Mantainers
--------
-
-* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo"
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
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--- a/distro/README
+++ b/distro/README
@@ -1,51 +1,60 @@
-The gCube System - WorkspaceTree
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-This work has been partially supported by the following European projects: DILIGENT (FP6-2003-IST-2),  
-D4Science (FP7-INFRA-2007-1.2.2), D4Science-II (FP7-INFRA-2008-1.2.2), iMarine (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2),  
-and EUBrazilOpenBio (FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil), Parthenos (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2014-1), BlueBridge (H2020-EINFRA-2015-1)
-
-
-Author
--------
-
-* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
-  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
-  
-
-Version and Release Date
-------------------------
-
-v. 6.11.1 February 2016
-
-
-Description
+The gCube System - ${name}
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${description}
+ 
+ 
+${gcube.description}
+ 
+${gcube.funding}
+ 
+ 
+Version
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${version} (${buildDate})
+ 
+Please see the file named "changelog.xml" in this directory for the release notes.
+ 
+ 
+Authors
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy). 
+ 
+Maintainers
 -----------
-
-The WorkspaceTree is a part of a portlet for users workspace management. 
-
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy). 
+ 
 Download information
---------------------
-
-Source code is available from SVN:
-http://svn.research-infrastructures.eu/public/d4science/gcube/trunk/portlets/user/workspace-tree-widget
-
-Binaries can be downloaded from:
-n/a
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Source code is available from SVN: 
+    ${scm.url}
+ 
+Binaries can be downloaded from the gCube website: 
+   ${gcube.website}
+ 
+ 
+Installation
+--------------------------------------------------
 
+ 
 Documentation 
--------------
-Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
-
-https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Workspace
-
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}/gcube/Workspace
+ 
+Support 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
 Licensing
----------
-
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
-
-
-
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
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diff --git a/distro/svnpath.txt b/distro/svnpath.txt
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-${scm.url} 
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5fc1ab0..71e52a8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 	<version>6.11.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>gCube Workspace Tree Widget</name>
 	<description>
-		gCube Workspace Tree Widget.
+		gCube Workspace Tree Widget is a widget to navigate and interact with gCube Workspace 
 	</description>
 	<scm>
 		<connection>scm:svn:http://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/portlets/user/${project.artifactId}</connection>