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Create a Guide/Template: Making a good CONTRIBUTING doc for your project's github repo
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Description
### Overview
We need to create a guide to making a CONTRIBUTING.md file for a HackforLA projects so that new engineers on projects can get started easily no matter their skill level.
### Action Items
The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labeled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.
- [ ] [Gather Examples Solo](https://github.com/hackforla/guides/wiki/How-to-Gather-Examples:-Solo) (open in a new tab)
- [ ] [Gather Examples Collaboratively](https://github.com/hackforla/guides/wiki/Phase-2-%E2%80%90-Gather-Examples-Collaboratively)
- [ ] [Create a Guide Draft](https://github.com/hackforla/guides/wiki/How-to-Draft-a-Guide)
- [ ] If needed, create a template
- [ ] [Have your guide peer reviewed](https://github.com/hackforla/guides/wiki/Peer-Reviews-for-Guides)
- [ ] [Present your guide for leadership review](https://github.com/hackforla/guides/wiki/Submitting-Your-Guide-for-Leadership-Review)
### Resources/Instructions
Google Drive Folder for this Guide’s documents and shortcuts (to documents in other locations) [0158 [DRAFT] Making a good CONTRIBUTING doc for your project's github repo](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NtwajfGWPvWIxTD8ZG8ItDjkV5HRuu-c)
- [GitHub's guidance for contributing files](https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors#adding-a-contributing-file)
- [100Automations guide for CONTRIBUTING files](https://github.com/100Automations/Website/blob/gh-pages/_guides/community-support-for-automations.md#contributing)
- [Hack for LA website team's CONTRIBUTING.md file](https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [311-data's contributing.md file](https://github.com/hackforla/311-data/blob/dev/docs/contributing.md)
- [100 Automation's CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/100Automations/Website/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [CivicTechJobs's CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/hackforla/CivicTechJobs/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Lucky Parking CONTRIBUTING.MD](https://github.com/hackforla/knowledgebase-content/issues/158)
- [VRMS README.md](https://github.com/hackforla/VRMS/blob/development/README.md): not a contributing file but has information like that on a contributing file
- [TDM Calculator Contributing Code](https://github.com/hackforla/tdm-calculator/wiki/Contributing-Code)
- [Food Oasis Contributing Code](https://github.com/hackforla/food-oasis/wiki/Contributing-Code)
**Projects with no contributing information or file:**
- [Expunge-Assist](https://github.com/hackforla/expunge-assist)
- [Access the data](https://github.com/hackforla/access-the-data/)
### Projects to Check
### Tasks
- [ ] This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.
Contributor guide
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