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 Guidelines for contributing.
 
+**How can I get involved?**
+
+First of all, we'd love to welcome you into the our Slack community where we chat, exchange ideas and ask questions. See below for how to join.
+
+We have a number of areas where we can accept contributions:
+
+* Write Golang code for the CLI, Gateway or other providers
+* Write for our front-end UI
+* Review pull requests
+* Manage, triage and research Issues and Pull Requests
+* Help our growing community feel at home
+* Create docs, guides and blogging
+* Speak at meet-ups, conferences or by helping folks with OpenFaaS on Slack
+
 **I've found a typo**
 
 * A Pull Request is not necessary. Raise an [Issue](https://github.com/alexellis/faas/issues) and we'll fix it as soon as we can. 
@@ -53,6 +67,8 @@ Checkout the [roadmap](https://github.com/alexellis/faas/blob/master/ROADMAP.md)
 
 There is an Slack community which you are welcome to join to discuss FaaS, IoT and Raspberry Pi projects. Ping [Alex Ellis](https://github.com/alexellis) with your email address so that an invite can be sent out.
 
+Email: alex@openfaas.com - please send in a one-liner about yourself so we can give you a warm welcome and help you get started.
+
 ### License
 
 This project is licensed under the MIT License.