Some notes about what a workspace is

docs/source/overview.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ Workspaces is composed of two major services and a suite of utilities.
 
 Apart from these two, there is also the **notification service**, a shared service for sending notifications.
 
+Wondering what a "workspace" is and what it has to do with the Workspaces project? This noun doesn't really exist in the
+system today. Right now, when a user requests some processing, it is delivered to them in a special delivery area,
+either a widely-accessible directory on Lustre, or to a location where it can be retrieved over the web. At the moment,
+there is no "workspace" per se, just these delivery areas which are rather more like loading docks than workspaces.
+
+As the functionality here becomes more robust, we will eventually have to architect, design, and build a "workspace"
+concept, which will most likely consist of various resources (disk, compute, memory) allocated to each user. The system
+will provide access to these resources to enable processing with data in the user's workspace as well as collaboration
+with other users and their data. But this is not currently designed. The processing is where this system is
+currently elaborated.
+
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