Added README to introduce the contents

The newly created `README.md' gives a short description of the
project, with a link to the final PDF, and the main template Gitlab
page, along with a short description of the LaTeX dependencies and how
to build the PDF.

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+Slides to introduce the reproducible paper template
+===================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>\
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+This is the LaTeX source of the slides presenting the [Reproducible
+paper template](https://gitlab.com/makhlaghi/reproducible-paper). The
+most recent version of the slides is available at
+https://akhlaghi.org/pdf/reproducible-paper.pdf .
+
+To build the slides, you need to have the Beamer and Tikz LaTeX
+packages installed, then simply run this command.
+
+```(shell)
+$ make
+```
+
+Note that the `Makefile` will create a `git-commit.tex` file before
+running LaTeX. So if you want to run LaTeX directly, make this file
+manually, see the `Makefile` for the suggested command to generate it.
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