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+## Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
+contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our
+project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone,
+regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and
+expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race,
+religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
+include:
+
+-   Using welcoming and inclusive language
+-   Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+-   Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+-   Focusing on what is best for the community
+-   Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+-   The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual
+    attention or advances
+-   Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political
+    attacks
+-   Public or private harassment
+-   Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or
+    electronic address, without explicit permission
+-   Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in
+    a professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of
+acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair
+corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit,
+or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other
+contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban
+temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they
+deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public
+spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community.
+Examples of representing a project or community include using an
+official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media
+account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or
+offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and
+clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may
+be reported by contacting the project team at
+[colin.mahony\@gov.bc.ca](mailto:colin.mahony@gov.bc.ca){.email}. All
+complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a
+response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances.
+The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to
+the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement
+policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in
+good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined
+by other members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor
+Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org), version 1.4, available at
+[http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/)
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+## How to contribute
+
+Government employees, public and members of the private sector are encouraged to contribute to the repository by **forking and submitting a pull request**.
+
+(If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a [basic tutorial](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) and check out a more detailed guide to [pull requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/).)
+
+Pull requests will be evaluated by the repository guardians on a schedule and if deemed beneficial will be committed to the master.
+
+All contributors retain the original copyright to their stuff, but by contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users **under the terms of the license under which this project is distributed.**