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+This repository generates the corresponding lesson website from [The Carpentries](https://carpentries.org/) repertoire of lessons. 
 
 ## Contributing
 
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 the [more detailed guidelines][lesson-example] on proper formatting, ways to render the lesson locally, and even
 how to write new episodes.
 
+Please see the current list of [issues][] for ideas for contributing to this
+repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is
+nicely explained in the chapter [Contributing to a Project](http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/GitHub-Contributing-to-a-Project) in Pro Git
+by Scott Chacon.
+Look for the tag ![good_first_issue](https://img.shields.io/badge/-good%20first%20issue-yellowgreen.svg). This indicates that the mantainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.  
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+
 ## Maintainer(s)
 
-* FIXME
+Current maintainers of this lesson are 
+
+* 
+*
+* 
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 ## Authors