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@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Contributing to Nomad
 If you wish to contribute to Nomad, you will need [Go](https://www.golang.org)
 installed on your machine (version 1.11+ is *required*).
 
-See the [`docs`](docs/) directory for more developer documentation.
+See the [`contributing`](contributing/) directory for more developer documentation.
 
 **Developing with Vagrant**
 There is an included Vagrantfile that can help bootstrap the process. The
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