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commit 985029042199d870f25b6fbec0e80907d4440f41
Author: Kevin Liu <ke...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 27 10:45:45 2025 -0500

    [docs] Link community contributing guidelines (#1579)
    
    Closes #970
    
    This PR links community guideline on contribution,
    https://iceberg.apache.org/contribute/
    
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    Co-authored-by: Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org>
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   - under the License.
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-# Contributing to the Iceberg Python library
+# Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions to Apache Iceberg! To learn more about contributing to Apache Iceberg, please refer to the [official Iceberg contribution guidelines](https://iceberg.apache.org/contribute/). These guidelines are intended as helpful suggestions to make the contribution process as seamless as possible, and are not strict rules.
+
+If you would like to discuss your proposed change before contributing, we encourage you to visit our [Community](https://iceberg.apache.org/community/) page. There, you will find various ways to connect with the community, including Slack and our mailing lists. Alternatively, you can open a [new issue](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues) directly in the GitHub repository.
+
+For first-time contributors, feel free to check out our [good first issues](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22) for an easy way to get started.
+
+## Contributing to PyIceberg
+
+The PyIceberg Project is hosted on GitHub at <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python>.
 
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