Add a basic CONTRIBUTING and README

Signed-off-by: Matt Strapp <matt@mattstrapp.net>

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+# Contributing
+
+First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉
+We welcome all sorts of contributions, from bug reports to feature requests to code contributions.
+
+## How to contribute
+
+The main ways to can contribute are:
+
+- [Requesting a new language](#requesting-a-new-language)
+- [Adding a new language](#adding-a-new-language)
+
+### Requesting a new language
+
+If you'd like to request a new language to be added to the repository, please open an issue with the `new language` label.
+Please include the following information:
+
+- The name of the language
+- A brief description of the language
+- The language's website, if any exist
+- Any relevant documentation on how to build, test, and publish libraries in the language
+- Any CI information
+- Any other relevant information
+
+### Adding a new language
+
+If you'd like to add a new language to the repository, please follow these guidelines:
+
+- The language **MUST** have some way of publishing and consuming libraries (ie. a package manager).
+- Your PR **SHOULD** (but doesn't have to) include a GitHub Actions pipeline to build, run tests, and potentially publish the library to the library location.
+  - See any of the existing language workflows for examples.
+- Your PR **MUST** include a `LANGUAGE`.md file in the `docs` directory with the following information:
+  - A basic way to add the library as a dependency
+  - An example of how to use the library
+  - A link on the README.md to the new language documentation
+