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+### Open Learning - an introduction to Open Source collaboration
+
+**Your mission**:
+
+ 1. Sign up for a new GitHub account here:  [**http://github.com/signup**](http://github.com/signup)
+   * Help Docs: https://help.github.com/articles/signing-up-for-a-new-github-account/
+   * VIDEO: [Create a Github account](https://vimeo.com/129705680) (1:15)
+ 2. Come back here to this repo (repository) and open an _Issue_
+   * Your issue doesn't need to say anything specific it will just let me add your username to the Greenpeace GitHub Organisation as well as the [open-learning](https://github.com/orgs/greenpeace/teams/open-learning) team
+ 3. Add a file to the repo. Name it `your-username.md` (i.e. `gyaresu.md`) and practice putting some text in.
+ 
+ 
+**HELP I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING!**
+ 
+First make sure to have a look at the documentation.
+
+ * https://help.github.com/
+
+If you're still having problems then email me or submit an Issue: 
+ * https://github.com/greenpeace/open-learning/issues
+