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 # Contributing
 
-#### Git-it Challenge Completions
+### Git-it Challenge Completions
 
-If you're working through the challenges in Git-it, you'll know most of this, but for the record: 
+If you're working through the challenges in [Git-it](http://www.github.com/jlord/git-it), you'll know most of this, but for the record: 
 
 - Fork this repository.
 
 - Create a branch named in this pattern: `add-<username>`, where username, not in brackets, is your GitHub username. 
 
-- Create a file inside of `/contributors` named `add-<username>.txt`, where username, not in brackets, is your GitHub username.
+- Create a file inside of `/contributors` named `add-<username>.txt`, where username, not in brackets, is your GitHub username. That file should just contain your username.
   
 - Push your branch to your fork.
 
+- Add @reporobot as a collaborator to your fork.
+
 - Pull in changes that @reporobot will make to the file (he's gonna awesomize your username!)
 
 - Submit a pull request to this repository against your `add-<username>` branch.
   
   
-#### Bug fixes to Patchwork Site
+### Bug fixes to Patchwork Site
 
 If you're contributing a patch to the Patchwork HTML page itself, make sure the branch name for the branch you create for your changes **does not** include your GitHub username. As a part of the Git-it workshop that uses this repository, users complete the challenge on pull requests with a branch that includes their username. In order to keep bug fixes separate from workshop completions -- don't use your username in your branch :)
 
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-Work in progress.
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+# Patchwork
+
+This repository is a website hosted by [GitHub Pages](http://pages.github.com). It goes along with [Git-it](http://www.github.com/jlord/git-it), a terminal based workshop for learning Git and GitHub. 
+
+Users fork this repository and learn things like (forking) branching, adding collaborators, pulling in changes, pushing to a remote branch and submitting pull request. Once their pull request comes in, @reporobot rewrites the index.html here to include the user.
+
+#### So much social coding goodness! :octocat:
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