fossasia/meilix-generator

How can we onboard new developers to the project?

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#80 opened on Jul 18, 2017

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We have our project going and developing in a smooth way. The thing we need now is to introduce the project to people out there and asked them to give it a try. We also want to engage more and more onboard developers in the project. Ways to go for it:

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1
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