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+Authors
+=======
+
+Original authors
+----------------
 Ed Stoner <ed@whsd.net>
-Aleksey Lim <alsroot@member.fsf.org>
+
+Contributors
+------------
+Aleksey Lim <alsroot@sugarlabs.org>
+Carlo Falciola <cfalciola@yahoo.it>
+Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>
+Ed Stoner <ed@whsd.net>
+Markus Schlager <m.slg@gmx.de>
+Myckel Habets <myckel@sdf.lonestar.org>
+Rafael Ortiz <rafael@activitycentral.com>
+samy boutayeb <s.boutayeb@free.fr>
+
+Maintainers
+-----------
+Aleksey Lim <alsroot@sugarlabs.org>
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+How to contribute
+=================
+
+Useful notes how to contribute to the project.
+
+Send patches
+------------
+Create your patches using ``git format`` command and send them to all
+maintainers from the :ref:`AUTHORS <AUTHORS>` file. The easiest way it just
+using ``git send-email`` command. Patches might be CCed to
+sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org to attract more people to review.
+
+Gitorious forks
+---------------
+Another useful way to contribute, especially for big improvements, is creating
+Gitorious forks and request them for merge to the trunk.
+
+* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/05/09/weve-made-a-few-changes/
+  (see `"Merge requests"` topic)
+* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/07/15/new-merge-request-functionality/
+* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/11/06/awesome-code-review/
+
+.. _sugar-lint: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Lint