This is the reply I send to people who respond to Steve’s email:
Hi Leandro
Thanks for your email. I hope we can work together.
We don’t have a formal application process. We invite you to ask questions and we are happy to answer them. We invite you to join in our regular online meetings where we discuss dev projects and support each other. We invite you to join our [Github](http://git link) and [Slack](http://slack link) conversations. If we still like each other we find an issue for you to work on and an experienced OFN developer to support you. When we agree that you are up to speed we start to pay.
I think that a good first step would be to invite you to the next of our regular dev meetings which is on Thursday 31st August at 8.30am for up to one hour. The agenda and joining instructions are here. If this is not convenient for you and/or if you would like to talk before the meeting please contact me (details below). I would be very happy to talk anything through.
Thanks again for your interest
Nick
Nick Weir
Open Food Network UK
01453 840037
Skype nickweir63
Supporting producers and communities to organise for Food Sovereignty
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