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+# Project Contributors
+
+All external contributors to the project, we are grateful for all their help
+
+## Contributors sorted alphabetically
+
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 ## Versioning
 
-We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/otto-de/_projectname_/tags).
+We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/otto-de/kafka-messaging-e2ee/tags).
 
 ### Commit style
 
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 ## Authors
 
-See also the list of [contributors](CONTRIBUTORS) who participated in this project.
+See also the list of [contributors](CONTRIBUTORS.md) who participated in this project.
 
 ## License