# Preamble

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Welcome to the HackingMaterials research group! The purpose of this guide is to ease your transition into our research group and help make your time here as productive and enjoyable as possible.&#x20;

This is an open document that you can freely share and adapt with attribution and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, please visit:&#x20;

[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ >)&#x20;

We thank Valve software (a video game company) for openly publishing their employee handbook, which helped inspire this effort. Also, thank you to those who help create and update this guide; each of us gains from the contributions of those before us, and we hope you are able to pay it forward to future members by contributing as well.


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