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+# POCloud-CookieCutter
+### Developed by Patrick McDonagh, Henry Pump
+CookieCutter Skeleton for creating a POCloud Driver
+
+# Using this CookieCutter
+
+## Install CookieCutter using pip
+
+```pip install cookiecutter```
+
+## Initialize the driver HTML and python files with this CookieCutter
+
+```cookiecutter https://github.com/Henry-Pump/POCloud-CookieCutter```
+
+## Done!
+
+