# Welcome!

We're so glad you're thinking about contributing to the U.S. Forms System open source project! If you're unsure about anything, just ask -- or submit the issue or pull request anyway. The worst that can happen is you'll be politely asked to change something. We love all friendly contributions.

We encourage you to read this project's CONTRIBUTING policy (you are here), its [LICENSE](LICENSE.md), and its [README](README.md).

## How to contribute to U.S. Forms System

- Report bugs and request features via [Github Issues](https://github.com/usds/us-forms-system/issues). You can also ask the core team questions and make suggestions by creating an issue.
- If you prefer email to issues, you can reach us at [forms@lists.usds.gov](mailto://forms@lists.usds.gov) with your questions and comments. We're always open to suggestions.
- Create a [Github pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/) with new functionality or fixing a bug.
- Improve or create documentation for U.S. Forms System.
- Help us improve our unit and integrations tests.
- Triage tickets and review patches triaging-tickets created by other users.

## Public domain

As noted in [LICENSE](LICENSE.md), this project is in the worldwide public domain (in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the [CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)).

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.