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CONTRIBUTING.md

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 The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to GenRMQ. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
 
-As we are a fairly small community so far, we will keep these guidelines very lightweight for now.
+We are a fairly small community at the moment. Therefore we will keep these guidelines lightweight for now.
 
 ## How to Contribute
 
-We happily accept contributions as [GitHub PRs][github_prs] or bug reports, comments/suggestions or usage questions by creating a [GitHub issue][gen_rmq_issues].
+We happily accept contributions as [GitHub PRs][github_prs](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) or bug reports, comments/suggestions or usage questions by creating a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/meltwater/gen_rmq/issues).
 
 ## Code of Conduct
 
-We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
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-We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
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-Therefore we follow the [Contributor Covenant v2.0](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/).
+Please see our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
 
 ## References
 
 We took some inspiration from [Writing your contributing guidelines](https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/#writing-your-contributing-guidelines) and [Contributing to Atom](https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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-[github_prs]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/
-[gen_rmq_issues]: https://github.com/meltwater/gen_rmq/issues