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+Contributing to Donut
+==========================
+
+We welcome community contributions to plotsbot! To setup Donut locally, follow the instructions in the [README.md file](https://github.com/codeuino/Social-Platform-Donut/blob/master/README.md).
+
+## First Timers Welcome!
+
+New to open source/free software? Here are a selection of issues we've made especially for first-timers. We're here to help, so just ask if one looks interesting:
+
+
+Thank you so much!
+
+Learn more about contributing to Codeuino code projects on these pages:
+
+* https://github.com/codeuino/Social-Platform-Donut/blob/master/PR_Template.md
+
+* https://github.com/codeuino/Social-Platform-Donut/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=pull-request-template.md&title= 
+
+## Bug reports & troubleshooting
+
+If you are submitting a bug, please go to https://github.com/codeuino/Social-Platform-Donut/issues/new
+
+## Make sure to follow templates for the same