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Absolutely, yeah the project has a loose group of contributor volunteers but longer term we would probably have to have a larger, more formal structure.

Right now, we're focusing on tooling to make onboarding new tax forms simpler and require a lower threshold of project understanding to allow a larger, less technical group of people to contribute

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Huh, as an aspiring tax professional how do I get in on this?

Go to the GitHub link above, read the README, and pay special attention to the “CONTRIBUTING” section.

If you have questions and the README and CONTRIBUTING documents do not specify a way to communicate, then open Issues on GitHub with your questions. Try to avoid asking questions unless you’ve read everything and cannot figure out how to proceed: remember that everyone working on the project is volunteering their limited time, just like you, and try to be respectful of their time and energy.

I am unaffiliated with this project, this is just the general procedure for contributing to open source projects.

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Thank you for the explanation. I've never contributed before to open source and have benefited from open source software a lot, so I'm trying to contribute to this the right way.

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