diff --git a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/integration.properties b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/integration.properties
index 3185a741e..2210abe90 100644
--- a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/integration.properties
+++ b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/integration.properties
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.hide_event_type=true
 com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.hide_link_to_map=true
 com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.hide_main_contributor=true
 com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.use_html_date_description=false
-com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.start_year=2000
+com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.start_year=2010
 com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.event.end_year_delta=5
 
 
@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ com.arsdigita.london.cms.dublin.audience_domain=LGAL
 #com.arsdigita.bundle.loader.category_files=bundle/categories/sci-nav-domain-1.00.xml,bundle/categories/sci-nav-hierarchy-1.00.xml
 #com.arsdigita.bundle.loader.custom_app_instances=com.arsdigita.navigation.Navigation:scimenu:ScientificCMS Navigation Menu,com.arsdigita.navigation.Navigation:libmenu:LibreCMS Navigation Menu 
 #com.arsdigita.bundle.loader.domain_mappings=STD-NAV:/navigation/,STD-NAV:/generic/,STD-NAV:/portal/
+
+
 # =============================================================================================
 # runtime specific configurations
 # ==============================================================================
@@ -240,4 +242,3 @@ com.arsdigita.london.cms.dublin.audience_domain=LGAL
 # devel specific configurations
 # waf.debug=true
 # waf.bebop.fancy_xsl_errors=true
-
diff --git a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/project.xml b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/project.xml
index 37212aaff..a92f8a5a9 100644
--- a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/project.xml
+++ b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/cfg/project.xml
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
-<!-- project.xml - BASE - containing all modules of the current ScientificCMS
+<!-- ==========================================================================
+     project.xml - BASE - containing all modules of the current ScientificCMS
      repository. A set of core modules is active, others are commented out 
      and may be activated (uncomment) according to a sites requirements.
      
      The unmodified (as distributed) bundle may be used to create a custom
      set of packages by a site administrator using ccm-hostinit command and
-     an appropriate set of add-on packages.                                  -->
+     an appropriate set of add-on packages.
+     ========================================================================== -->
 
 <ccm:project   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
                xmlns:ccm="http://ccm.redhat.com/ccm-project" 
               ccmVersion="6.1" 
                     name="scientificcms" 
-              prettyName="Scientific CMS" 
-                 version="2-0-0" 
+              prettyName="Scientific CMS BaseBundle" 
+                 version="2-3-0" 
                  release="base" 
                   webxml="web-sci.xml" 
                   webapp="ROOT" 
@@ -49,12 +51,12 @@
         <ccm:application name="ccm-subsite"/>
         <ccm:application name="ccm-themedirector"/>
 
-<!--   LDN extension  -->
+<!--   LDN core extensions  -->
         <ccm:application name="ccm-ldn-search"/>
         <ccm:application name="ccm-ldn-terms"/>
         <ccm:application name="ccm-ldn-util"/>
 
-<!--   SCI extension  -->
+<!--   SCI bundle  -->
         <ccm:application name="ccm-sci-bundle"/>
 
 
diff --git a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/templates/placeholder.info b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/templates/placeholder.info
index 165928284..1f4cf6df4 100644
--- a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/templates/placeholder.info
+++ b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/templates/placeholder.info
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ provide a customised template.txt file replacing the default file
    /src/WEB-INF/navigation/templates.txt
 This file must be specified in parameter 
    com.arsdigita.navigation.templates_file
-It usually stored in res/bundle/navigation
\ No newline at end of file
+It is usually stored in res/bundle/navigation
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/themes/master/dummy b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/themes/master/dummy
index beec54a4d..46411e524 100644
--- a/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/themes/master/dummy
+++ b/ccm-sci-bundle/bundles/base/themes/master/dummy
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-Just a dummy file for test purpose during development.
\ No newline at end of file
+Just a dummy file as a placeholder. This directory may contain theme files
+which are used by themedirector to download a base theme in order to further
+customize a site by a site designer. If it will be used this way, 
+ccm-themedirector must be configured appropriately.
\ No newline at end of file