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+Please visit [the contributing document in our documentation repository](https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). We log [issues in the documentation repository here](https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform/issues).
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+If you want to jump straight in to getting your development environment set up, [visit the development environment repository here](https://github.com/CoderDojo/cp-local-development).