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 If you let us know about your paper using `aeon`, we will happily list it [here](https://www.aeon-toolkit.org/en/stable/papers_using_aeon.html).
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+## 💬 Further information
+
+`aeon` was forked from `sktime` `v0.16.0` in 2022 by an initial group of eight core
+developers.