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@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Contributing to The Littlest JupyterHub development
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+This is an open source project that is developed and maintained by volunteers.
+Your contribution is integral to the future of the project. Thank you!
+
+See the `contributing guide <https://the-littlest-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/index.html>`_
+for information on the different ways of contributing to The Littlest JupyterHub.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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@@ -10,18 +10,29 @@ The Littlest JupyterHub
    :target: https://the-littlest-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io
 .. image:: https://badges.gitter.im/jupyterhub/jupyterhub.svg
    :target: https://gitter.im/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/I_want_to_contribute!-grey?logo=jupyter
+   :target: https://the-littlest-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/index.html
 
 **The Littlest JupyterHub** (TLJH) distribution helps you provide Jupyter Notebooks
 to 1-50 users on a single server.
 
-Administrators who do not consider themselves 'system administrators' but would
-like to provide hosted Jupyter Notebooks for their students / users are the
-primary audience. All users are provided with the same environment, and administrators
+The primary audience are people who do not consider themselves 'system administrators'
+but would like to provide hosted Jupyter Notebooks for their students or users.
+All users are provided with the same environment, and administrators
 can easily install libraries into this environment without any specialized knowledge.
 
+See the `latest documentation <https://the-littlest-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io>`_
+for more information on using The Littlest JupyterHub.
+
+For support questions please search or post to `our forum <https://discourse.jupyter.org/c/jupyterhub/>`_.
+
+See the `contributing guide <https://the-littlest-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/index.html>`_
+for information on the different ways of contributing to The Littlest JupyterHub.
+
 See `this blog post <http://words.yuvi.in/post/the-littlest-jupyterhub/>`_ for
 more information.
 
+
 Development Status
 ==================
 
@@ -34,7 +45,7 @@ Installation
 
 The Littlest JupyterHub (TLJH) can run on any server that is running at least
 **Ubuntu 18.04**. Earlier versions of Ubuntu are not supported.
-We have a bunch of tutorials to get you started.
+We have several tutorials to get you started.
 
 - Tutorials to create a new server from scratch on a cloud provider & run TLJH
   on it. These are **recommended** if you do not have much experience setting up
diff --git a/docs/contributing/index.rst b/docs/contributing/index.rst
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 Contributing
 ============
 
-We want you to contribute to TLJH in the ways that are most useful
-and exciting to you. This section contains documentation helpful
-to people contributing in various ways.
+✨ Thank you for thinking about contributing to the littlest JupyterHub! ✨
+
+This is an open source project that is developed and maintained by volunteers.
+Your contribution is integral to the future of the project. Thank you!
+
+This section contains documentation for people who want to contribute.
+
+You can find the `source code on GitHub <https://github.com/jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub/tree/master/tljh>`_
 
 .. toctree::
    :titlesonly:
 
    docs
-   code-review
    dev-setup
    tests
    plugins
+   code-review
    packages