From 829c329dafb5006f73dc38e499978b9ccc96e6b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Sokolovsky <pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:17:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] README: Add explicit section on contributing.

To increase visibility of Contributors' Guidelines and Code Conventions
docs.
---
 README.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13529ff4f3..00a0405f34 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -162,3 +162,13 @@ This will use the included `tools/pydfu.py` script.  If flashing the firmware
 does not work it may be because you don't have the correct permissions, and
 need to use `sudo make deploy`.
 See the README.md file in the ports/stm32/ directory for further details.
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+MicroPython is an open-source project and welcomes contributions. To be
+productive, please be sure to follow the
+[Contributors' Guidelines](https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/ContributorGuidelines)
+and the [Code Conventions](https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/CODECONVENTIONS.md).
+Note that MicroPython is licenced under the MIT license, and all contributions
+should follow this license.