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+Contributing to Ideonate / ContainDS Projects
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+
+We welcome contributions to our [open source projects on Github](https://github.com/ideonate).
+
+Issues
+------
+
+Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests via GitHub Issues.
+
+Please also [get in touch](https://cdsdashboards.readthedocs.io/en/stable/chapters/contact.html) with any questions or feedback, or for help in working with the software. These 
+actions are valuable contributions in their own right.
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+In general, the projects follow the "fork and pull request" Git workflow.
+
+ 1. **Fork** the repo on GitHub
+ 2. **Clone** the project to your own machine
+ 3. **Commit** changes to your own branch
+ 4. **Push** your work back up to your fork
+ 5. Submit a **Pull request** so that we can review your changes
+
+NB: Make sure you merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!
+
+Copyright and Licensing
+-----------------------
+
+Most Ideonate open source projects are licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License, Apache 2.0 license, or MIT license.
+
+Contributions to the Git repos will be assumed to be on the same copyright basis as existing files in that repo.