README.md: How spkr-beep came about

README.md

@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ bits in the code had to be changed, a lot of documentation had to be
 changed, and eventually the changes had accumulated to so much that
 the result could not really be called `beep-1.3` any more.
 
+However, with the last repository activity in early 2013, Jonathan's
+github beep repository had been basically unmaintained for almost 6 years,
+so Hans Ulrich created https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/ as a new home
+for beep.  All contributors are welcome there, old and new.
+
 This following part has been taken from the original `README` by
 original `beep` author Johnathan Nightingale where he tells how `beep`
 came about.