diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Thank you for your interest in contributing to Mattermost. This guide provides a
     - You are welcome to work on any ticket, even if it is assigned, so long as it is not yet marked "in progress"
     - (optional) Comment on the ticket that you're starting so no one else inadvertently duplicates your work
 
-2. These projects are intended to be a straight forward first pull requests from new contributors. 
+2. These projects are intended to be a straight forward first pull requests from new contributors
   - If you don't find something appropriate for your interests, please see the full list of tickets [Accepting Pull Requests](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10101)
   - Also, feel free to fix bugs you find, or items in GitHub issues that the core team has approved, but not yet added to Jira