Contribution and code of conduct documents

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+# 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, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression,
+level of experience, education, socio-economic status, 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 https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html
+
+[homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org
+
+For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see
+https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to Cartesi
+
+Thank you for your interest in Cartesi! We highly appreciate even the smallest of fixes or additions to our project.
+
+Make sure to review our [Contributing License Agreement](https://forms.gle/k3E9ZNkZY6Vy3mkK9), 
+sign and send it to [email protected] with the title of "CLA Signed" before taking part in the project. We are happy to automate 
+this for you via DocuSign upon request in the Google Form as well.
+
+## Basic Contributing Guidelines
+
+We use the same guidelines for contributing code to any of our repositories, any developers wanting to contribute to Cartesi must create pull requests. This process is described in the [GitHub documentation](https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request). Each pull request should be started against the master branch in the respective Cartesi repository. After a pull request is submitted the Cartesi team will review the submission and give feedback via the comments section of the pull request. After the submission is reviewed and approved, it will be merged into the master branch of the source. 
+
+Please note the below! We appreciate everyone following the guidelines.
+
+* No --force pushes or modifying the Git history in any way;
+* Use non-master branches, using a short meaningful description, with words separated by dash (e.g. 'fix-this-bug');
+* All modifications must be made in a pull-request to solicit feedback from other contributors.
+
+## Get in Touch
+
+When contributing in a deeper manner to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via our 
+[Discord channel here](https://discord.gg/Pt2NrnS), or contact us at [email protected] email before working on the change.