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 ## Want to contribute?
 
-If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidlines:
- - All new development happens on feature/fix branches referenced with the github issue number, and are then merged to the develop branch; so the develop branch is always the most up-to-date, working code
+If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidelines:
+ - All new development happens on feature/fix branches referenced with the GitHub issue number, and are then merged to the develop branch; so the develop branch is always the most up-to-date, working code
  - The master branch only contains tagged releases
- - If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please fork from develop, and submit your pull request back as a fix/feature branch referencing the github issue number
+ - If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please fork from develop, and submit your pull request back as a fix/feature branch referencing the GitHub issue number
  - Wherever possible, code changes should conform to PSR-2 standards
- - [Helpful article about forking](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/ "Forking a Github repository")
+ - [Helpful article about forking](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/ "Forking a GitHub repository")
  - [Helpful article about pull requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/ "Pull Requests")