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+# Contributing to Boundary
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+Thank you for contributing to Boundary! Here you can find common questions around reporting issues and opening
+pull requests to our project.
+
+When contributing in any way to the Boundary project (new issue, PR, etc), please be aware that our team identifies with many gender pronouns and to use non-binary pronouns when addressing our team. For more reading on our code of conduct, please see the [HashiCorp community guidelines](https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines).