CryptoNote Team highly values contribution from all the CryptoNote currencies to the technology development and adoption. We believe in coin pluralism and would like to see more CN currencies launching.

That is why CryptoNote Team has created a completely new repository and a step-by-step guide that covers forking process. It is designed to help everyone get accustomed with source code basics and give CryptoNote technology a try:

CryptoNote Starter
http://cryptonotestarter.org
https://github.com/cryptonotefoundation/cryptonote

Reference implementation
CryptoNoteCoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686485.

News
2014/07/01 - CryptoNote Starter released
2014/07/11 - Testnet tool released: https://forum.cryptonote.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=234
2014/07/11 - Currency reference implementation launched under the name CryptoNoteCoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686485.
2014/07/18 - Smart genesis block creation added: https://forum.cryptonote.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=220&p=806#p806
2014/07/29 - Emission calculator and address prefix generator tools added to cryptonotestarter.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=673203.msg8082560#msg8082560
2014/08/08 - Knowledge base published: https://cryptonotestarter.org/kb/

More on CryptoNote
https://cryptonote.org/inside.php
https://cryptonote.org/coins.php
https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
https://forum.cryptonote.org

Same thread on our forum
https://forum.cryptonote.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=219