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 ### Coding conventions
 
-Please make sure all of your commits are atomic (one change to the list per commit).
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-## Join the community
-
-If you haven't already, come find us on, you guessed it, IRC! ([#awesome-irc](ircs://chat.freenode.net/awesome-irc) on Freenode).
+Please make sure all of your commits are atomic (one change to the list per commit).
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