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+# Keyboard-Layout for Iris rev6
+
+[work in progress]
+
+This Layout is based on the german ergonomic keyboard-layout Neo. The alphabetic keys are similarly arranged. The symbols are moved slightly in Layer 2 (aka Layer 3 in Neo) and some are not supported. 
+
+## Layers
+ 
+TODO
+
+## Navigation
+
+TODO