Merge pull request #82 from ivoa/iss61

Add participation page

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+title: "How can I participate?"
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+## Participation
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+The IVOA welcomes participation, in several ways.
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+- We strongly encourage universities, facilities, data centres, and astronomy projects worldwide to become involved as providers of data, services, information, and software, by following standardised VO methods and interfaces.
+To do this, there is no need to make a formal link to IVOA, but we welcome your input.
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+- We encourage individuals to participate in the IVOA working groups that develop and agree standards, as well as the Interest Groups that discuss wider issues.
+Normally working group members are drawn from IVOA Member Projects, but we also welcome others, such as astronomers, technical staff, or developers at data centres or astronomical facilities.
+If you wish to participate as a Working Group or Interest Group member, please contact the appropriate chair (see [working group contacts](/members/working-groups)).
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+- We welcome proposals for VO projects who wish to become members of IVOA.
+Our expectation is that development teams and data providers will organise themselves at national level, and that it is these national projects who will be members of IVOA.
+(For example, we do not normally expect that individual observatories will be member projects of IVOA.)
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+It should be recognised that becoming a member project represents a serious commitment to contribute to the VO in general and the IVOA in particular.
+If you are organising a project that you think should become a member project, please start by consulting the [guidelines for participation](https://ivoa.net/documents/latest/IVOAParticipation.html), and then contact the current IVOA chair to discuss your proposal.
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+- [Guidelines for Participation](https://ivoa.net/documents/latest/IVOAParticipation.html)
+- [IVOA contacts](/about/contacts)
+- [Working Group contacts](/members/working-groups)