diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Example Contributing Guidelines
+
+This is an example of GitHub's contributing guidelines file. Check out GitHub's [CONTRIBUTING.md help center article](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors/) for more information.
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
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+* **I'm submitting a ...**
+[ ] bug report
+[ ] feature request
+[ ] question about the decisions made in the repository
+[ ] question about how to use this project
+
+* **Summary**
+
+
+
+* **Other information** (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. StackOverflow, personal fork, etc.)
diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+* **What kind of change does this PR introduce?** (Bug fix, feature, docs update, ...)
+
+
+
+* **What is the current behavior?** (You can also link to an open issue here)
+
+
+
+* **What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?**
+
+
+
+* **Other information**:
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ src
 tsconfig.json
 tslint.json
 .travis.yml
+.github
 
 coverage
 .nyc_output