diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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-Karan Misra <kidoman@gmail.com>
-Kunal Powar <kunalpowar1203@gmail.com>
-Nikesh Vora <nikesh.voratp@gmail.com>
-Akhil Sahdev <akhilsahdev@thoughtworks.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
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-adeschamps <anthony.j.deschamps@gmail.com>
-alsm <asm@rndm.io>
-Al S-M <asm@rndm.io>
-Ben Delarre <ben@delarre.net>
-Ben Schwartz <benschw@gmail.com>
-Gavin Cabbage <gavincabbage@gmail.com>
-gotang <gotang@foxmail.com>
-Kashyap Kopparam <kashyapkopparam@gmail.com>
-Kunal Powar <kunalpowar1203@gmail.com>
-Marco P. Monteiro <marco_monteiro@sv.comcast.com>
-Matthew Dale <matthew@matthewrdale.com>
-Nikesh Vora <nikesh.voratp@gmail.com>
-SjB <steve@sagacity.ca>
-Steve Beaulac <steve@beaulac.me>
-Thorsten von Eicken <tve@rightscale.com>
-wiless <wiless.bytes@gmail.com>
-Wu Jiang <wu@morediff.info>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 [issue](https://github.com/cfreeman/embd/issues).
 Thank you!
 
-## About
-
-EMBD is affectionately designed/developed by Karan Misra ([kidoman](https://github.com/kidoman)), Kunal Powar ([kunalpowar](https://github.com/kunalpowar)) and [FRIENDS](https://github.com/cfreeman/embd/blob/master/AUTHORS). We also have a list of [CONTRIBUTORS](https://github.com/cfreeman/embd/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS).
 
 ## TODO
 * Continue to tidy up the readme and other documenting files.
diff --git a/update_contributors.sh b/update_contributors.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-git log --all --format='%cN <%cE>' | sort -u | grep -v karan.misra@gmail.com |\
-	grep -v noreply@ | cat CONTRIBUTORS - | sort | uniq > CONTRIBUTORS.new
-mv CONTRIBUTORS.new CONTRIBUTORS