Add info about editions (exercism#216)

* Add info about editions * Thank you CI
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diff --git a/using/config.json b/using/config.json
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     "path": "using/licenses/cc-by-nc-sa.md",
     "title": "The Creative Commons NC SA 4 Licence",
     "blurb": ""
+  },
+  {
+    "uuid": "4ca3faa0-ad69-4a2f-b52e-55db3b54c433",
+    "slug": "editions",
+    "path": "using/editions/README.md",
+    "title": "The Various editions of Exercism",
+    "blurb": ""
+  },
+  {
+    "uuid": "8f66e8c6-93fc-4546-88ee-1ffb513fb0b2",
+    "slug": "editions/standard",
+    "path": "using/editions/standard.md",
+    "title": "Exercism Standard Edition",
+    "blurb": ""
+  },
+  {
+    "uuid": "01622903-21a9-47e2-a0d6-4d2a218d2e8b",
+    "slug": "editions/research",
+    "path": "using/editions/research.md",
+    "title": "Exercism Research Edition",
+    "blurb": ""
+  },
+  {
+    "uuid": "06a97766-74ef-41a7-a8fc-2d127d7dbb79",
+    "slug": "editions/teams",
+    "path": "using/editions/teams.md",
+    "title": "Exercism Teams Edition",
+    "blurb": ""
   }
 ]
diff --git a/using/editions/README.md b/using/editions/README.md
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+# Editions
+
+Exercism has three different "editions":
+
+- [**Standard:**](/docs/using/editions/standard): The Exercism that everyone knows and loves. Entirely free, community-powered, personal learning.
+- [**Research:**](/docs/using/editions/research): Our research edition, allowing us to work with leading scientists to learn more about how people learn to code.
+- [**Teams:**](/docs/using/editions/teams): Our edition for small teams (e.g. colleagues at work) or organisations (e.g. Bootcamps).
diff --git a/using/editions/research.md b/using/editions/research.md
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+# Research Edition
+
+In 2019, we launched Exercism Research - a subsite of Exercism focussed on using our data and community to learn more about we learn.
+
+With the launch of Exercism v3 we have retired the subsite, and instead are intending to fold the features of Exercism Research into Exercism Standard Edition.
+Everyone will be able to opt in to joining our research program and then be offered experiments to take part in as part of the learning journey.
+
+We'll be announcing more about this in early 2022.
diff --git a/using/editions/standard.md b/using/editions/standard.md
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+# Standard Edition
+
+Exercism Standard Edition is designed for individuals to use for their personal learning, while helping each other through our community systems.
+
+It is not designed or intended for organizations to use to train staff, or to power bootcamps.
+See [Teams Edition](/docs/editions/teams) for how you can achieve those goals.
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+# Teams Edition
+
+Exercism has always been used by teams to help each other learn.
+In fact, that was how it originally started, as a tool for Katrina teaching students in her bootcamp.
+
+However, as Exercism grew, the small-team aspects didn't fit with our larger mentoring platform, and so we seperated that out into a seperate edition: Exercism Teams.
+
+With the launch of Exercism v3, we have now shut down Exercism Teams.
+However, we are intending to relaunch it in early 2022, as a fully thought-through product, with a whole range of exciting features.
+
+We'll be announcing more about this in early 2022.