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 ## Contributing to Swift
 
 Contributions to Swift are welcomed and encouraged! Please see the [Contributing to Swift guide](https://swift.org/contributing/).
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+To be a truly great community, Swift.org needs to welcome developers from all
+walks of life, with different backgrounds, and with a wide range of experience.
+A diverse and friendly community will have more great ideas, more unique
+perspectives, and produce more great code. We will work diligently to make the
+Swift community welcoming to everyone.
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+To give clarity of what is expected of our members, Swift has adopted the
+code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant. This document is used
+across many open source communities, and we think it articulates our values
+well. For more, see [the website](https://swift.org/community/#code-of-conduct).