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+# Contributing
+
+When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.
+Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
+
+## Pull request process
+
+To contribute to the repository, first make create an issue describing what you will be doing, then fork the repository, make your appropriate changes, then commit. Afterwards, you can make a pull request and (if it passes tests) we will merge it into the main branch
+