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 [![All Contributors](https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-3-orange.svg?style=flat-square)](#contributors-)
 
-* * *
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 # CPP_BIDS
 
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 Feel free to open issues to report a bug and ask for improvements.
 
+If you want to contribute, have a look at our
+[contributing guidelines](https://github.com/cpp-lln-lab/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+that are meant to guide you and help you get started. If something is not clear
+or you get stuck: it is more likely we did not do good enough a job at
+explaining things. So do not hesitate to open an issue, just to ask for
+clarification.
+
 ### Guidestyle
 
 -   We use camelCase.