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 Join our community by interacting on GitHub or chatting with us on [Zulip](https://ibis-project.zulipchat.com/).
 
 For more information visit https://ibis-project.org/.
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+## Governance
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+The Ibis project is an [independently governed](https://github.com/ibis-project/governance/blob/main/governance.md) open source community project to build and maintain the portable Python dataframe library. Ibis has contributors across a range of data companies and institutions.