0. Create a GitHub Account
   

1. Go to the main cugos.github.com repository page
   

2. Fork the cugos.github.com repository
   

3. When prompted, fork it to your account
   

4. You will be redirected to your forked repository page
   

5. We want to add our profile to the people directory
   

6. First copying the URL that we will use to clone our forked repository
   

7. Then in a bash shell on your computer find a good working directory. Clone your forked respository and follow the rest of the edit, commit, push and pull request workflow below. FYI: you will need to install git on your computer
   

$ git clone git@github.com:thebigspoon/cugos.github.com.git
Cloning into 'cugos.github.com'...
remote: Counting objects: 4148, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (64/64), done.
remote: Total 4148 (delta 29), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 4084
Receiving objects: 100% (4148/4148), 35.26 MiB | 4.93 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2337/2337), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Create a new local branch to add your profile changes

$ cd cugos.github.com/
$ git checkout -b add_my_profile
Switched to a new branch 'add_my_profile'

Go find the people/_posts/ directory

$ cd people/_posts/

Copy the lastest profile and swap it out with your information. Use bboxfinder to find your coordinates if necessary

$ cp 2015-06-19-aaron-racicot.markdown 2015-06-20-first-last.mardown
---
 
title: < your name >
category: people
lng: < your lng >
lat: < your lat >
image:  < your img >
github: < your github username >
twitter: < your twitter username >
permalink: /people/< your name >
excerpt: < your description >
---

git add the file to staging

$ git add 2015-06-20-first-last.mardown

git commit the file with a commit message

$ git commit -m "adding myself, because CUGOS rocks"

git push the change to your remote branch

$ git push origin add_my_profile # or whatever your branch name is 

Then go back to the GitHub page of your forked repository, change to the master branch and refresh. You should see something like:

Click that green button. Now add a commit message

When you feel confident and worthy to pledge your honor to the CUGOS family click that green button

Go drink a beer, you did a good job, and read up on the git workflow