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-See https://ml.dask.org/contributing.html for contributing guidelines.
+Dask is a community maintained project. We welcome contributions in the form of bug reports, documentation, code, design proposals, and more. 
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+Please see https://ml.dask.org/contributing.html for more information.
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+Also for general information on how to contribute to Dask projects see https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/develop.html.