is there a getting started for this project?

[CarlosOnline]

The archived article is pretty old.

http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2015/04/07/aurelia-hello-world-with-asp-net-5.aspx

[OdeToCode]

Unfortunately, no. I do keep the same up to date with the latest official release of VS2015 and ASP.NET Core, so if you have RC1 installed it should load into VS and run.