Developer Experience Audit (#30)

* Adding Code of Conduct

* Adding 2017

* Standardizing README

Adding a contribute and license section, too.

Author: RichardLitt

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
+contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and
+our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
+size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
+nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and
+orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
+include:
+
+* Using welcoming and inclusive language
+* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+* Focusing on what is best for the community
+* Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
+advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
+  address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+  professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
+behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
+response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
+reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions
+that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or
+permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
+threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
+when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of
+representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
+address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
+representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be
+further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
+reported by contacting the project team at [email protected]. All
+complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that
+is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is
+obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
+Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good
+faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other
+members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
+available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]
+
+[homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org
+[version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/

LICENSE.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 The Plotly.jl package is licensed under the MIT "Expat" License:
 
-> Copyright (c) 2016:
+> Copyright (c) 2016-2017:
 >  * Shilei Zheng
 >  * Leah Hanson
 >  * Bryan A. Knowles
->  * chriddyp
+>  * Chris Palmer
 >  * Jon Malmaud
 
 > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

README.md

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-# A Julia interface to the plot.ly plotting library and cloud services
+# Plotly.jl
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/plotly/Plotly.jl.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/plotly/Plotly.jl)
 
-## Installation
+> A Julia interface to the plot.ly plotting library and cloud services
+
+## Install
 
 Simply run `Pkg.add("Plotly")`.
 
-## Plotting
+## Usage
 
 Plotting functions provided by this package are identical to [PlotlyJS](https://github.com/spencerlyon2/PlotlyJS.jl). Please consult its [documentation](http://spencerlyon.com/PlotlyJS.jl/).
 
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ julia> Plotly.signin("username","your api key")
 PlotlyAccount("username","your api key")
 ```
 
-Note: you may also specify your session endpoints using signin as follows:
+Note: you may also specify your session endpoints using sign in as follows:
 
 ```julia
 julia> Plotly.signin("username","your api key",Dict("plotly_domain"=> "your_plotly_base_endpoint", "plotly_api_domain"=> "your_plotly_api_endpoint"))
@@ -68,8 +70,18 @@ local_plot = download(RemotePlot("https://plot.ly/~malmaud/73"))
 # or equivalently, local_plot = download_plot("https://plot.ly/~malmaud/73")
 ```
 
+## Acknowledgements
 
-### Acknowledgements
 [PlotlyJS.jl ](https://github.com/spencerlyon2/PlotlyJS.jl), which provides the large majority of the functionality of this package, is developed primarily by Spencer Lyon.
 
 This package, which adds to PlotlyJS.jl the functionality for interacting with the Plotly cloud, is developed by Jon Malmaud and others.
+
+## Contribute
+
+Please do! This is an open source project. Check out [the issues](https://github.com/plotly/Plotly.jl/issues) or open a PR!
+
+We want to encourage a warm, welcoming, and safe environment for contributing to this project. See the [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for more information.
+
+## License
+
+[MIT](LICENSE.md) © 2016-2017 Shilei Zheng, Leah Hanson, Bryan A. Knowles, Chris Palmer, Jon Malmaud