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# Contributing

- [Design](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/design.md)
- [Design Workflow](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/design/understanding-the-design-workflow.md): General knowledge intended to understand the workflow of OpenCollective Design
- [Design Contribution Guidelines](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/design/untitled.md): Describe the series of guidelines and requirements to be able to contribute with design-related efforts to Open Collective
- [Development](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers.md)
- [Contribution Guide](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/dev-contribution-guide.md)
- [Best Practice Guidelines](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/guidelines.md): Describes what we expect from new code. Also includes special tips to help you getting started!
- [Bounties](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/bounties.md)
- [API](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/api.md)
- [Members](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/api/members.md)
- [Users / Emails](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/api/users-emails.md)
- [Collectives](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/api/collectives.md)
- [Events](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/api/events.md)
- [README Integration](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/readme-integration.md)
- [Architecture](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/architecture.md)
- [Postgres Database](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/postgres-database.md): This page describes how to interact with the Postgres database
- [PayPal](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/paypal.md): Technical details about how we implement PayPal and how to get started developing with it.
- [Post-Donation Redirect](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/post-donation-redirect.md)
- [Custom Tweets](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/custom-tweets.md)
- [Manual Reporting](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/manual-reporting.md)
- [Github Permissions](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/github-permissions.md)
- [Translations](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/translations.md): Documenting how we handle translations in the code
- [Testing with Cypress](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/testing-with-cypress.md): We use Cypress for our end-to-end tests. This page references our custom commands and the best practices that we try to follow.
- [Collective's locations](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/developers/collectives-locations.md): How we deal with collective's addresses and countries
- [Documentation](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/documentation.md)
- [Style guide](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/documentation/style-guide.md): A reference for writing style and formatting
- [Suggesting changes](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/documentation/suggesting-changes.md): Learn how to edit and add new media, pages and sections
- [Translation](https://documentarians.gitbook.io/metadocumentation/master/contributing/translators.md): Procedure and documentation about how to contribute to the Open Collective translations


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