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 ## Contributing
 
-We welcome contributions to Corda! Please see our [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Corda is an open-source project and contributions are welcome!
+
+To find out how to contribute, please see our [contributing docs](https://docs.corda.net/head/contributing-index.html).
 
 ## License