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+## Contributing
+The development of scratch-vm is an ongoing process,
+and we love to have people in the Scratch and open source communities help us along the way.
+
+If you're interested in contributing, please take a look at the
+[issues](https://github.com/LLK/scratch-vm/issues) on this repository.
+Two great ways of helping are by identifying bugs and documenting them as issues,
+or fixing issues and creating pull requests. When submitting pull requests please be patient
+-- it can take a while to find time to review them.
+The organization and class structures can't be radically changed without significant coordination
+and collaboration from the Scratch Team, so these types of changes should be avoided.
+
+It's been said that the Scratch Team spends about one hour of design discussion for every pixel in Scratch,
+but some think that estimate is a little low. While we welcome suggestions for new features in our
+[suggestions forum](https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/1/) (especially ones that come with mockups), we are unlikely to accept PRs with
+new features that haven't been thought through and discussed as a group. Why? Because we have a strong belief
+in the value of keeping things simple for new users. To learn more about our design philosophy,
+see [the Scratch Developers page](https://scratch.mit.edu/developers), or
+[this paper](http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/Scratch-CACM-final.pdf).
+
+Beyond this repo, there are also some other resources that you might want to take a look at:
+* [Community Guidelines](https://github.com/LLK/scratch-www/wiki/Community-Guidelines) (we find it important to maintain a constructive and welcoming community, just like on Scratch)
+* [Open Source forum](https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/49/) on Scratch
+* [Suggestions forum](https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/1/) on Scratch
+* [Bugs & Glitches forum](https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/3/) on Scratch