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It includes:</p> <ul> <li>information about community [events][3b]</li> <li>a collection of [resources][2] on spending data</li> <li>guidance on [how to get involved][3] with the community</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/">This site</a> is hosted on <a href="https://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a> and built using <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>, a static site generator. Interested readers are encouraged to contribute changes, fixes, corrections by <a href="https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/issues/new?title=Bug&body=I%27m%20having%20an%20issue%20with...">raising an issue</a> on the site's <a href="https://github.com/openspending/community.openspending.org/issues">issue tracker</a>. 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