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 Note that this only works on Mountain Lion, not Mavericks, due to a [bug in PyInstaller](http://www.pyinstaller.org/ticket/807).
 
+Contributing to Fig
+-------------------
+
+If you're looking contribute to [Fig](http://orchardup.github.io/fig/)
+but you're new to the project or maybe even to Python, here are the steps
+that should get you started.
+
+1. Fork [https://github.com/orchardup/fig](https://github.com/orchardup/fig) to your username. kvz in this example.
+1. Clone your forked repository locally `git clone git@github.com:kvz/fig.git`.
+1. Enter the local directory `cd fig`.
+1. Set up a development environment `python setup.py develop`. That will install the dependencies and set up a symlink from your `fig` executable to the checkout of the repo. So from any of your fig projects, `fig` now refers to your development project. Time to start hacking : )
+1. Works for you? Run the test suite via `./scripts/test` to verify it won't break other usecases.
+1. All good? Commit and push to GitHub, and submit a pull request.