Add quickstart description to readme

Author: cboehme

README.md

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-metafacture-runner
-==================
+# metafacture-runner #
 
-Standalone applications for working with Flux and Metamorph scripts
+Standalone commandline applications for working with Flux and Metamorph scripts
+
+## Quickstart ##
+
+1. Download the latest distribution package from [the metafacture-runner/releases](https://github.com/culturegraph/metafacutre-runner/releases) page. Make sure that you do download a distribution package and _not_ a source code package. The latest distribution package is [metafacture-runner 3.1.1](https://github.com/culturegraph/metafacture-runner/releases/download/metafacture-runner-3.1.1/metafacture-runner-3.1.1-dist.tar.gz).
+2. Extract the downloaded archive:
+   ```bash
+   $ tar xzf metafacture-runner-3.1.1-dist.tar.gz
+   ```
+   This will create a new directory containing a ready-to-use metafacture distribution.
+3. Change into the newly created directory:
+   ```bash
+   $ cd metafacture-runner-3.1.1
+   ```
+4. Run one of the example scripts:
+   ```bash
+   $ ./flux.sh examples/read/marc21/read-marc21.flux
+   ```
+   This example will print a number of marc21 records on standard out.
+
+The _examples_ folder contains many more examples which provide a good starting point for learning metafacture. If you have any questions please join our [mailing list](http://lists.dnb.de/mailman/listinfo/metafacture) or use our issue-based discussion forum over at [metafacture-documentation](https://github.com/culturegraph/metafacture-documentation).