Rename License file and add Contributing sections

* Make it clear from project root we are using MIT-LICENSE
* Add contributing section w/ overview of how to submit code to repo

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Contributing to Golang Kinesis Connectors
+
+Pull requests are much apprecited. Please help make the project a success!
+
+To contribute:
+
+1. Fork the [official repository][1].
+2. Make your changes in a topic branch.
+3. Squash commits and add an [excellent commit message][2].
+4. Send a pull request.
+
+[1]: https://github.com/harlow/kinesis-connectors/tree/master
+[2]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html

README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # Golang Kinesis Connectors
 
-__Note:__ _This codebase is a under active development. Expect breaking changes until 1.0 version release._
+__Note:__ _This codebase is a under active development._
 
 ### Kinesis connector applications written in Go
 
 Inspired by the [Amazon Kinesis Connector Library][1]. These components are used for extracting streaming event data
 into S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, and more. See the [API Docs][2] for package documentation.
 
+[1]: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connectors
+[2]: http://godoc.org/github.com/harlow/kinesis-connectors
+
 ## Overview
 
 Each Amazon Kinesis connector application is a pipeline that determines how records from an Amazon Kinesis stream will be handled. Records are retrieved from the stream, transformed according to a user-defined data model, buffered for batch processing, and then emitted to the appropriate AWS service.
@@ -35,7 +38,9 @@ The S3 Pipeline performs the following steps:
 2. Upload the records to an S3 bucket.
 3. Set the current Shard checkpoint in Redis.
 
-The config vars are loaded done with [gcfg][3].
+The config vars are loaded done with [gcfg].
+
+[gcfg]: https://code.google.com/p/gcfg/
 
 ```go
 package main
@@ -118,6 +123,17 @@ func main() {
 }
 ```
 
-[1]: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connectors
-[2]: http://godoc.org/github.com/harlow/kinesis-connectors
-[3]: https://code.google.com/p/gcfg/
+## Contributing
+
+Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md].
+Thank you, [contributors]!
+
+[LICENSE]: /MIT-LICENSE
+[CONTRIBUTING.md]: /CONTRIBUTING.md
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (c) 2015 Harlow Ward. It is free software, and may
+be redistributed under the terms specified in the [LICENSE] file.
+
+[contributors]: https://github.com/harlow/kinesis-connectors/graphs/contributors