This document discusses how non-developers can contribute to open source projects. It recommends getting a GitHub account, forking repositories to make copies you can work on, creating branches to develop changes, and then submitting pull requests to the original repositories. The document demonstrates this process by walking through creating a sample pull request. It notes that contributions don't always happen smoothly and some takes longer than expected to be accepted.
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