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From: Alexander Zhogov <alexander.zhogov@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 19:04:27 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Create CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# How to Contribute
+We welcome community contributions to the OpenVINO™ repository.
+If you have an idea how to improve the product, please share it 
+with us doing the following steps:
+
+* Make sure you can build the product and run all tests and samples with your patch
+* In case of a larger feature, provide relevant unit tests and one or more sample
+* Submit a pull request at https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/pulls
+
+## OpenVINO™ Coding Style Guide
+We basically use the Google style (https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html) with some exceptions:
+* 4 spaces instead of 2 spaces for indentations
+* Limitation of 160 symbols for the line length
+* Exceptions are allowed
+* Using namespace are allowed in cpp and prohibited in headers
+* Underscore symbol before member in classes/structures
+* thisStyleForFunctions()
+* theSameStyleForVariables
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