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I'll try to illustrate the process for doing this by describing what I do.

First, you get your fork of Akka.NET - everything is cool.

Next, you clone it to your machine. Right now your "origin" is set to your local fork.
If Github for Windows doesn't do this for you automatically, you'll need to add a second remote to your local copy of your Akka.NET repository - one that points to the main repository (akkadotnet/akka.net)

git remote add upstream git@github.com:akkadotnet/akka.net.git

Now let's say you want to add a new feature - first thing you need to do is create a new feature branch. Don't work directly off of dev.

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# Windows AMIs don't have WinRM enabled by default -- this script will enable WinRM
# AND install 7-zip, curl and .NET 4 if its missing.
# Then use the EC2 tools to create a new AMI from the result, and you have a system 
# that will execute user-data as a PowerShell script after the instance fires up!
# This has been tested on Windows 2008 SP2 64bits AMIs provided by Amazon
# 
# Inject this as user-data of a Windows 2008 AMI, like this (edit the adminPassword to your needs):
#
# <powershell>
# Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

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# Windows AMIs don't have WinRM enabled by default -- this script will enable WinRM
# AND install the CloudInit.NET service, 7-zip, curl and .NET 4 if its missing.
# Then use the EC2 tools to create a new AMI from the result, and you have a system 
# that will execute user-data as a PowerShell script after the instance fires up!
# This has been tested on Windows 2008 R2 Core x64 and Windows 2008 SP2 x86 AMIs provided
# by Amazon
# 
# To run the script, open up a PowerShell prompt as admin
# PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
# PS> icm $executioncontext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock((New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.github.com/gist/1672426/Bootstrap-EC2-Windows-CloudInit.ps1'))