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= Contributing to Beats

The Beats are open source and we love to receive contributions from our
community — you!

There are many ways to contribute, from writing tutorials or blog posts,
improving the documentation, submitting bug reports and feature requests, or
writing code that implements a whole new protocol, module, or Beat.

The {beatsdevguide}/index.html[Beats Developer Guide] is your one-stop shop for
everything related to developing code for the Beats project.