CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the tech-community-slacks repository! We are looking for more slack groups to add to our expanding list.

If you are interested in adding a new slack group, please add it to the README.

How to contribute

1. Check the README to see if your suggestion exists or not.
2. Fork the repository. Here are the GitHub instructions for forking a repository.
3. In the command line, clone the repository by typing git clone https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME/tech-community-slacks.git
4. Then type cd tech-community-slacks to go into the project's directory.
5. Create a branch and switch to that new branch by using the following command: git checkout -b new-branch-name
6. Update the README.md with your slack group suggestion(s).
   • Append the title and link to the slack group, to the list in the appropriate category
7. In the command line, stage your changes by using the git add . command.
8. Commit your changes by using the git commit -m "commit message" command.
9. Push up your changes to the remote branch on GitHub by using the git push -u origin branch_name command.
10. Open a PR directed to our master branch.
11. The maintainers will review your PR and either request changes or approve it.

Beginner Friendly Resources for using Git and GitHub

• Getting Started with Git