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@@ -84,3 +84,22 @@ Data sources have events with very different frequencies. For example, liquid st
 3. All datasources send all events in their history from before <date>, moving their internal pointer forward to the next unsent event.
 4. QBT merges all events in memory
 5. goto 1!
+
+Style Guide
+===========
+
+To ensure that changes and patches are focused on behavior changes, the zipline codebase adheres to PEP-8, <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>.
+
+The maintainers check the code using the flake8 script, <https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8/>, which is included in the requirements_dev.txt.
+
+Before submitting patches or pull requests, please ensure that your changes pass ```flake8 zipline tests```
+
+Discussion and Help
+===================
+
+Discussion of the project is held at the Google Group, <zipline@googlegroups.com>, <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zipline>.
+
+Contact
+=======
+
+For other questions, please contact <opensource@quantopian.com>.