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+# Welcome to CHAOSS Glossary 
+The Dictionary to everything with an acronym here in [CHAOSS](https://chaoss.community/) 
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+# The Glossary
+We understand the struggle in reading and understanding everything from a holistic point of view. Here are some of the Acronyms you might come across as a contributor: 
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+- API: Application Programming Interface
+- *CON: Conference e.g., CHAOSScon
+- CHAOSS: Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software
+- CHAOSScast: CHAOSS Podcast 
+- CoC: Code of Conduct
+- CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
+- DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion e.g., DEI Badging
+- FG: Focus Group 
+- FOSS|FLOSS: Free Open Source Software 
+- FOSDEM: Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
+- GB: Governance Board
+- GSoC: Google Summer of Code
+- GSoD: Google Season of Docs
+- Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors usually done in October.
+- LFx: Linux Foundation
+- MD: Markdown 
+- MD.File: Markdown File e.g., Contributor.md
+- MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+- OSS: Open Source Software 
+- OSI: Open Source Initiative 
+- OSOSS: Open Standards and Open Source Software
+- OSCA: Open Source Community Africa
+- Repo: Repository
+- PR: Pull Request 
+- Pycon: Python Conference 
+- SDG's: Sustainable Development Goals 
+- WG: Working Group 
+- UN: United Nations 
+ 
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