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title: About This Site
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If you are a member of the OpenSpending community---whether you
are a data publisher, work on building or testing code, or develop
stories and visualizations using OpenSpending data---this site belongs
to you.

This site is a place to showcase the OpenSpending community's work and
to share its resources. It includes:

* information about community [events][3b]
* a collection of [resources][2] on spending data
* guidance on [how to get involved][3] with the community

[This site](https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/)
is hosted on [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/) and built using
[Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/), a static site generator.  Interested
readers are encouraged to contribute changes, fixes, corrections by
[raising an issue](https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/issues/new?title=Bug&body=I%27m%20having%20an%20issue%20with...)
on the site's
[issue tracker](https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/issues).
For more detail on how to contribute, see the Contribution Guide
below.

- [Contribution Guide](./contribute/): Detailed information on how to contribute changes to the site
- [Recent Changes](./changes/): A list of recent changes to the site
- [Media](./media/): Downloadable OpenSpending images and other media

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[2]:	{{ site.baseurl }}/resources/
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[3b]:   {{ site.baseurl }}/events/
[4]:	{{ site.baseurl }}/help/