1. INTRODUCTION

2. DATA ACQUISITION
2.1. DECam
2.2. Survey operations
2.3. Survey progress through DR1

3. DATA PROCESSING

4. DATA QUALITY
4.1. Astrometry
4.2. Photometry
4.3. Flagged objects
4.4. Depth and completeness
4.5. Morphological object classification
4.6. Known issues

5. RELEASE PRODUCTS
5.1. Images
5.2. Catalogs
5.3. Files
5.4. DES DR1 Standard Bandpasses
5.5. Software

6. DATA ACCESS
6.1. NCSA DESaccess
6.2. LIneA Science Server
6.3. NOAO Data Lab

7. SUMMARY AND FUTURE RELEASES