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 5. Fork OpenPGP Keychain and contribute code (the best part ;) )
 6. Open a pull request on Github. I will help with occuring problems and merge your changes back into the main project.
 
-I am happy about every code contribution and appreciate your effort to help us developing OpenPGP Keychain :)
+I am happy about every code contribution and appreciate your effort to help us developing OpenPGP Keychain!
 
 ## Development