commit 22642a39ca133eddb3bf8af4e8458e735e6cb2d2
author Nick Gordon <nmgordon@memphis.edu> Thu Dec 21 14:05:40 2017 -0600
committer Alex Afanasyev <aa@cs.fiu.edu> Sat Dec 23 14:19:12 2017 -0800
tree 916b398e9f8ffb3758d886879fd75efc6754ab4b
parent 7a6978eb52648f86714e6a554a46d5b603c0225b

docs: mention the contributing guide

Change-Id: I5fa215dd471945d9d2d4da3c67de511d4784b522
refs: #4413

README.md

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+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Mini-NDN
 ========
 
+If you are new to the NDN community of software generally, read the
+[Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
 ### What is Mini-NDN?
 
 Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and
@@ -27,3 +30,4 @@
 * [Mini-NDN Edit](docs/GUI.md)
 * [Running Experiments](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md)
 * [Mini-NDN Redmine](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn)
+* [Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)