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 Thank you for your interest in contributing to Quorum!
 
-Quorum is built on open source and we fully intend to accept public contributions in the near future. There are many ways to contribute, and we appreciate all of them, so stay tuned to this space.
+Quorum is built on open source and we fully intend to accept public contributions in the near future. Until then, feel free to file issues and open pull requests, but note that we won't be merging them until the necessary processes are in place.
 
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