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layout: page
title: How to Join the Initiative
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<blockquote>

    &ldquo;The world needs people who see something that needs to be done and
    start to do it, without permission or advice. They just start doing
    it.&rdquo; — Wendell Berry

</blockquote>

To join the Open Company Initiative, please email [Tim
Cook](mailto:tim@saxifrageschool.org) with the following information:

  1. Your name and title
  1. The name of your company
  1. A URL (your homepage, or a landing page about openness)
  1. A one-sentence description of your company
  1. A one-sentence description of a way in which your company proactively 
     creates trust through transparency and openness

If you are comfortable with programming, you may also submit a [pull request]().

---
layout: page
title: How to Join the Initiative
---
<blockquote>

    &ldquo;The world needs people who see something that needs to be done and
    start to do it, without permission or advice. They just start doing
    it.&rdquo; — Wendell Berry

</blockquote>

If your company proactively creates trust through genuine transparency and
openness, you are an open company, full stop. You don't need our permission to
be open. That said, if you would like to join with like-minded companies in the
Open Company Initiative, please email [Tim
Cook](mailto:tim@saxifrageschool.org) (or submit a [pull
request](https://github.com/opencompany/opencompany.github.io/blob/master/directory/index.html))
with the following information:

  1. Your name and title
  1. The name of your company
  1. A link to your homepage, or a landing page about openness
  1. A one-sentence description of your company
  1. A description of one way in which your company proactively creates trust 
     through transparency and openness

<div class="next-steps nav">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="/about/">About the Initiative</a></li>
        <li><a href="/directory/">Directory of Companies</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Clean up language on Join page
Clean up language on Join page

Also adds link to PR
