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 \chapter{Joining Our Community}\label{s:joining}
 
-We hope you will choose to help us do the same for this book.
-If you are new to working this way,
+We hope you will choose to help us make this book better.
+If you are new to working in this collaborative way,
 please see \appref{s:conduct} for our code of conduct,
 and then: