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+Authors
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+Also see https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/graphs/contributors.
+Names below are ordered by first contribution.
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+Author
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+Samy Pessé <samypesse@gmail.com>
+Aaron O'Mullan <aaron.omullan@gmail.com>