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+Contributions are welcome! Please add issues and make pull requests. There are no stupid questions. All ideas are welcome. This is a volunteer project. Be excellent to each other.
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+Fork from master and go from there. This repository is intended to remain a generic, ready-to-fork template that demonstrates the features of academicpages.