Updated Outreachy applicant info.

Author: kgodey

content/programs/outreachy/2019-12-start/contents.lr

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-Creative Commons is participating in Outreachy's round of internships running from **Dec 2019 to Mar 2020**. Please see **[the official Outreachy Creative Commons internship page](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/creative-commons/#better-visualization-tools-for-the-cc-network)** for project-specific information. Some general information and tips are below.
+Creative Commons is participating in Outreachy's round of internships running from **Dec 2019 to Mar 2020**. Please see **[the official Outreachy Creative Commons internship page](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/creative-commons/)** for project-specific information. Some general information and tips are below.
 
-### Contacting Mentors
+### Getting Started
 
-All the CC Outreachy mentors are on [Slack](/community). **Please use public channels on Slack as the primary method of communication.** Public channels are better than direct messages because it allows any available mentor (or even another applicant) to answer your questions and interact with you. It also allows other applicants who have the same questions to benefit from the answers the mentor is giving you.
+Read a little bit about Creative Commons and what we do. We're not simply an open source software project like many other Outreachy mentorship organization – we're a nonprofit organization and we do a lot of different things. Some of the projects we are mentoring are not software related at all (although some are quite technical). Feel free to ask us questions about what we do, our various programs, our licenses, and so on. There is a lot about us out there. You'll need to know a lot about us in order to help us effectively, especially if you're looking to contribute to projects like the FAQ or the Platform Toolkit.
 
-Remember that the mentors are busy – they're all either full time students or work at Creative Commons. It's good to follow up if you don't get a response, but wait a couple of days first.
+Once you're ready to get started, contribute to one of our projects. Once you have a couple of contributions down, you can start working on your final application. Feel free to reach out to mentors any time to ask questions about contributions or your application. It is especially important to get feedback on your application from mentors before submitting it.
 
 ### Contributing
 
-Before you contribute, read a little bit about Creative Commons and what we do. We're not simply an open source software project like many other Outreachy mentorship organization – we're a nonprofit organization and we do a lot of different things. Some of the projects we are mentoring are not software related at all (although some are quite technical). Feel free to ask us questions about what we do, our various programs, our licenses, and so on. There is a lot about us out there. You'll need to know a lot about us in order to help us effectively, especially if you're looking to contribute to projects like the FAQ or the Platform Toolkit.
+Please read the *Project Contribution Information* section on the project description on [the Outreachy site](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/creative-commons/) for contribution guidelines specific to your project.
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+If you're contributing to a more technical project, please read our [Contributing Code](/contributing-code) page. Keep in mind that you can record any contribution to any Creative Commons project as an Outreachy contribution – it does not have to be to the same repository as the project you're applying to. You can record contributions even if you have not yet received feedback on them or if they have not been merged – our mentors are busy so we can be slow to provide feedback.
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+### Contacting Mentors
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+All the CC Outreachy mentors are on [Slack](/community). **Please use public channels on Slack as the primary method of communication.** Public channels are better than direct messages because it allows any available mentor (or even another applicant) to answer your questions and interact with you. It also allows other applicants who have the same questions to benefit from the answers the mentor is giving you.
 
-If you're contributing to a more technical project, please read our [Contributing Code](/contributing-code) page. Keep in mind that you can record any contribution to any Creative Commons project as an Outreachy contribution as long as it is accepted – it does not have to be to the same repository as the project you're applying to.
+**Please ask mentors specific questions.** We don't know how to help you get started unless we know what you have questions about. People come from a variety of experiences and backgrounds and the things you may be confused about may be totally different than the things that someone else has questions about. Please give us as much information as possible, the more you tell us, the better we can help you.
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+Remember that the mentors are busy – they're all either full time students or work at Creative Commons. It's good to follow up if you don't get a response, but wait a couple of days first.
 
 ### Project List