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 # MupBot
-An open source Discord bot for helping coders gain experience working on open source projects
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+An open source Discord bot for helping coders gain experience working on open source projects.
+
+## How to contribute (add your code to this project)
+
+You should fork this project and submit Pull Requests with your changes, ready to be code reviewed and merged into this project.