Better readme

README.md

-The ROOT System
-===============
+<img src="https://root-forum.cern.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3fb82b650635bc6d61461f3c47f41786afad4548.png" align="right"  height="50"/>
+
+## About
 
 The ROOT system provides a set of OO frameworks with all the functionality
 needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in a very efficient way.
@@ -20,11 +21,70 @@ learn C++. If more performance is needed the interactively developed
 macros can be compiled using a C++ compiler via a machine independent
 transparent compiler interface called ACliC.
 
-
 The system has been designed in such a way that it can query its databases
 in parallel on clusters of workstations or many-core machines. ROOT is
 an open system that can be dynamically extended by linking external
 libraries. This makes ROOT a premier platform on which to build data
 acquisition, simulation and data analysis systems.
 
-ROOT is available under the LGPL license.
+[![License: LGPL v2.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-LGPL%20v2.1-blue.svg)](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1)
+
+## Build Status
+| Branch | Continuous | Nightly |
+|--------|------------|---------|
+| master | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-incremental-master)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-incremental-master/) | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-nightly-master)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-nightly-master/) |
+| master-imt | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-incremental-master-imt)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-incremental-master-imt/) | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-nightly-master-imt)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-nightly-master-imt/) |
+| v5-34-00-patches | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-incremental-v5-34-00-patches)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-incremental-v5-34-00-patches/) | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-nightly-v5-34-00-patches)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-nightly-v5-34-00-patches/) |
+| v6-08-00-patches |  [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-incremental-v6-08-00-patches)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-incremental-v6-08-00-patches/) | [![Build Status](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/buildStatus/icon?job=root-nightly-v6-08-00-patches)](https://phsft-jenkins.cern.ch/view/ROOT/job/root-nightly-v6-08-00-patches/) |
+
+## Live Demo
+[![](https://swanserver.web.cern.ch/swanserver/images/badge_swan_white_150.png)](http://cern.ch/swanserver/cgi-bin/go?projurl=https://github.com/cernphsft/rootbinder.git)
+
+## Screenshots
+These screenshots shows some of the plots (produced using ROOT) presented when the Higgs boson discovery was [announced at CERN](http://home.cern/topics/higgs-boson):
+
+![CMS Data MC Ratio Plot](https://d35c7d8c.web.cern.ch/sites/d35c7d8c.web.cern.ch/files/CMS04_1.png)
+
+![Atlas P0 Trends](https://d35c7d8c.web.cern.ch/sites/d35c7d8c.web.cern.ch/files/Atlas06_0.png)
+
+See more screenshots on our [gallery](https://root.cern/gallery).
+
+## Download and Getting Started
+See [root.cern download page](https://root.cern/downloading-root) for the latest binary releases. 
+
+[Getting started with ROOT.](https://root.cern/getting-started)
+
+## Building
+Clone the repo
+
+    $ git clone https://github.com/root-project/root.git
+    
+Make a directory for building
+
+    $ mkdir build
+    $ cd build
+    
+Run cmake and make
+
+    $ cmake ../root
+    $ make -j8
+
+Setup and run ROOT
+
+    $ source bin/thisroot.sh
+    $ root
+    
+[More information](https://root.cern/building-root) regarding building.
+
+## Help and Support
+- [Forum](https://root.cern/forum/)
+- [Issue tracker](https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/projects/ROOT/issues/ROOT-5820?filter=allopenissues)
+- [Report a bug](https://root.cern/bugs) (Requires a [CERN lightweight account](https://account.cern.ch/account/Externals/RegisterAccount.aspx))
+- [Mailing lists](https://groups.cern.ch/group/root-dev/default.aspx)
+- [Documentation](https://root.cern/guides/reference-guide)
+- [Tutorials](https://root.cern/doc/master/group__Tutorials.html)
+
+## Contribution Guidelines
+- [Bug reporting guidelines](https://root.cern/guidelines-submitting-bug)
+- [Coding conventions](https://root.cern/coding-conventions)
+- [Meetings](https://root.cern/meetings)