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-If you haven’t already, check out our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/Expensify/ReactNativeChat/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for onboarding!
+If you haven’t already, check out our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/Expensify/ReactNativeChat/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for onboarding and email contributors@expensify.com to request to join our Slack channel!
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