diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ac38c607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+language: cpp
+
+matrix:
+  include:
+    - compiler: clang
+      env: CXX_SCONS="-Qunused-arguments -fcolor-diagnostics" WARNING_CXXFLAGS="-Wno-unused-function -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-parentheses -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-internal-linkage-in-inline"
+
+before_install:
+ - echo 'yes' | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapnik/boost
+ - sudo apt-get update -qq
+ - sudo apt-get install -qq libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev python-nose libicu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev libz-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libproj-dev libpq-dev libgdal-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev python-cairo-dev libsqlite3-dev
+
+script: scons configure JOBS=2 FAST=True CXX="$CXX $CXX_SCONS" WARNING_CXXFLAGS=$WARNING_CXXFLAGS && sudo make install && make test
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c56245856..835152ff2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-```                                                          
-    _/      _/                                _/  _/      
-   _/_/  _/_/    _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/_/_/        _/  _/   
-  _/  _/  _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/  _/_/      
- _/      _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/  _/  _/     
-_/      _/    _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/    _/  _/  _/    _/    
-                     _/                                   
-                    _/                                    
 ```
+    _/      _/                                _/  _/
+   _/_/  _/_/    _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/_/_/        _/  _/
+  _/  _/  _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/  _/_/
+ _/      _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/  _/  _/
+_/      _/    _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/    _/  _/  _/    _/
+                     _/
+                    _/
+```
+
+[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/mapnik/mapnik.png)](http://travis-ci.org/mapnik/mapnik)
 
 # What is Mapnik?