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+# About Guides
+These Guides are meant to serve as an expansion to existing documentation for
+beginners of this project, that means Guides should be directly and uniquely
+related to this project. Generalized beginner level material about broader
+topics like Github, Git, Command-line basics, etc. may be better served in the
+Open Source documentation as a part of our new overall general beginner guides.
+
+## Some Appropriate Guides Topic Examples
+- Overview of technologies used
+- Setting up this project with Docker on Windows
+- Setting up this project with pipenv
+- Making style changes to the project
+- Troubleshooting known Windows Issues with Docker and VS Code
+
+
+## Guide Conventions to Follow
+- be written in Markdown format
+- exist as a sibling to this `README.md` file in the `guides/` directory
+- utilize [snake_case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case) naming
+- have a unique name, and scope for Guide
+- be sure to check that modifying an existing Guide isn't better than creating a new one
+- link to existing resources where applicable, rather than duplicating work within
+ a Guide (for example: you wish to explain what the `cd` command is; you should
+ link to the MDN Docs, Wikipedia, etc. instead of writing it out within the Guide
+ itself in a verbose fashion)
+- have a clear and focused need they are addressing
+
+## Process for creating a new Guide
+1. Create a Feature Issue outlining:
+   - The name of the Guide
+   - The material it will cover
+   - Any related resources you wish to reference or include
+   - Why you believe this Guide is useful, what need is it solving?
+2. Participate in any relevant discussions on the Issue to further outline the Guide, depending on the aims of the Guide, this could take some time.
+3. Wait for Issue to reach a status of `status: ready for work`, once reached a PR can now be generated for adding the approved Guide to this project following the conventions listed in this `README.md`.