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- register as a user
- add a profile picture, your approximate location and other information about yourself to your user profile
- write readable and reader-friendly posts, add a picture and hashtags
- comment on other users’ posts
- recommend posts that are worth reading
- follow users
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Our Good First Issues on GitHub are suitable for beginners.
We are also happy if you view, comment on or release changes to the program code of other developers on GitHub. Or give the software on GitHub a Star.
You can chat with us on Discord and we can get to know each other in a pair programming session.
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