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 ## Collection of Important Podcasts for software engineers
 
-List of podcasts which are helpful for software engineers
+List of podcasts which are helpful for software engineers/programmers
 
 ### Data/MachineLearning
 
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+### Contribution Guidelines
+
+Please feel free to raise a PR to add your favorite podcast to the list keeping in mind:
+
+- Add your podcast in appropriate category in ascending order of name
+- If there is no matching category, add a new category to the list in ascending order of category name
+- Add a description of the podcast which includes frequency of episodes and what are the topics it covers
+- Raise a PR
+
+Thanks