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+# Contributing to libswarm
+
+Want to hack on libswarm? Awesome! Here are instructions to get you
+started.
+
+Libswarm is a part of the [Docker](https://docker.io) project, and follows
+the same rules and principles. If you're already familiar with the way
+Docker does things, you'll feel right at home.
+
+Otherwise, go read
+[Docker's contributions guidelines](https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+Happy hacking!