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 * Add ability for watchers to be configured for types of notifications they should receive
 
+
 Special Thanks
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@@ -233,16 +234,28 @@ Special Thanks
 * [Relevance](http://thinkrelevance.com) - For giving me Open-source Fridays to work on Errbit and all my awesome co-workers for giving feedback and inspiration.
 * [Thoughtbot](http://thoughtbot.com) - For being great open-source advocates and setting the bar with [Airbrake](http://airbrakeapp.com).
 
+
 Contributing
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+We welcome any contributions. If you need to tweak Errbit for your organization's needs,
+there are probably other users who will appreciate your work.
+Please try to determine whether or not your feature should be **global** or **optional**,
+and make **optional** features configurable via `config/config.yml`. 
+
+**Examples of optional features:**
+
+* Enable / disable user comments on errors.
+* Adding a `username` field to the User model.
+
+**How to contribute:**
+
 * Fork the project.
 * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
-* Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a
-  future version unintentionally.
-* Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history.
-  (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
-* Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
+* Add tests for it. This is important so we don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
+* Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself we can ignore when we pull)
+* Send us a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
+
 
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