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@@ -4,10 +4,19 @@ Bjarne is a Discord server bot built for and maintained by the UWS Game Dev Soci
 
 It is written in Python using [discord.py](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py), a wrapper for the Discord API.
 
+It is currently hosted on the Heroku cloud platform.
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 ## Contributing
 If you are a member of the society and wish to add features, enhancements or fix bugs your contribution is welcome!
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 Feel free to choose an item in the Planned list of the [Features](https://github.com/martygrant/uwsgamedevbot#features) section.
 
+To get started you should get the example running from the [discord.py repo](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py) and check out the documentation there. For a more in-depth tutorial there is a really handy [Discord server](https://discord.gg/GWdhBSp) with guides for basic operations.
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+For developing the bot you should create your own bot and run it in your own private server to test out your functions so we can avoid a lot of bother with security tokens and the Bjarne bot being hosted in a cloud server. Once you are happy you can submit a pull request and it can be added to Bjarne.
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+If you have any questions for making a contribution, or a code related question for your change you can message @midnightpacific in the Discord server.
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 ### Requirements
 You will need Python 3.4.2+ and the [discord.py](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py) library, instructions for installing discord.py 
 are available on its repo page.