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@@ -72,3 +72,10 @@ located at the Spring Community's forum site:
 Links to the forums, and other useful resources are
 available from the web site.
 
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+CONTRIBUTING
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+
+Contributions are welcome. Please refer to the Contributor Guidelines for details
+
+  https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security/wiki/Contributor-Guidelines
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