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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+title: "face_recognition"
+version: "1.2.2"
+authors:
+  - family-names: Geitgey
+    given-names: Adam
+abstract: "face_recognition is a simple and powerful library in Python for facial recognition, built using dlib's deep learning and machine learning capabilities."
+keywords: ["face recognition", "machine learning", "Python", "dlib"]
+repository-code: "https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition"
+license: "MIT"
diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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+# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our project and 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, socioeconomic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
+
+We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:
+
+- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
+- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
+- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
+- Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
+- Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
+
+- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
+- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+- Public or private harassment
+- Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
+- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
+
+## Enforcement Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and it also applies when an individual is officially representing the project in public spaces. Examples of representing a project include using an official project email address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the project team. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
+
+All project maintainers are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org), version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.
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 If you run into problems, please read the [Common Errors](https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/wiki/Common-Errors) section of the wiki before filing a github issue.
 
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions to the `face_recognition` project and appreciate your efforts to improve it! Whether you want to report issues, suggest new features, or submit pull requests, please take a moment to review our [Contribution Guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.rst) for details on how to get started.
+
+By contributing, you help us make this project even better and more accessible to the community.
+
 ## Thanks
 
 * Many, many thanks to [Davis King](https://github.com/davisking) ([@nulhom](https://twitter.com/nulhom))