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-Hi. &nbsp;👋🏽 &nbsp;👋 &nbsp;**We are happy you are here.**&nbsp; 🎉&nbsp;🌟
+### We are not accepting community contributions at this time.
 
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-We&nbsp;💛&nbsp;💙 &nbsp; our community.  
-**`But our maintainers are not accepting community contributions at this time.`**  
-Please read this [community blog post](https://exercism.org/blog/freeing-our-maintainers) for details.
+We're grateful for your interested in helping improve the Python track. but our maintainers are **not accepting community contributions at this time.** 
+If you would like to discuss possible future changes, please open a [thread on the forum](https://forum.exercism.org/).
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+This [community blog post](https://exercism.org/blog/freeing-our-maintainers) contains more details.
 
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+Hi. &nbsp;👋🏽 &nbsp;👋 &nbsp;**We are happy you are here.**&nbsp; 🎉&nbsp;🌟
+
 **`exercism/Python`** is one of many programming language tracks on [exercism(dot)org][exercism-website].  
 This repo holds all the instructions, tests, code, & support files for Python _exercises_ currently under development or implemented & available for students.