docs: refresh README and contribution docs

Signed-off-by: Alex T <alext.mkrs@gmail.com>

CONTRIBUTING

@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# Contributing to Eclipse UPM
-
-Thanks for your interest in this project.
-
-## Project description
-
-The Eclipse UPM repository provides software drivers for a wide variety of
-commonly used sensors and actuators. These software drivers interact with the
-underlying hardware platform (or microcontroller), as well as with the attached
-sensors, through calls to Eclipse MRAA APIs.
-
-* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.upm
-
-## Developer resources
-
-Information regarding source code management, builds, coding standards, and
-more.
-
-* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.upm/developer
-
-The project maintains the following source code repositories
-
-
-## Eclipse Contributor Agreement
-
-Before your contribution can be accepted by the project team contributors must
-electronically sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA).
-
-* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php
-
-Commits that are provided by non-committers must have a Signed-off-by field in
-the footer indicating that the author is aware of the terms by which the
-contribution has been provided to the project. The non-committer must
-additionally have an Eclipse Foundation account and must have a signed Eclipse
-Contributor Agreement (ECA) on file.
-
-For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
-https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit
-
-## Contact
-
-Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.
-
-* 

README.md

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 ```
 The developer community is invited to propose new interfaces for actuator types.
 
-The UPM project is joining the Eclipse Foundation as an Eclipse IoT project.
+The UPM project is an Eclipse Foundation IoT project.
-You can read more about this [here](https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-upm).
+You can read more about this [here](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.upm).
 
 ### Example
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ A sensor/actuator is expected to work as such (here is the MMA7660 accelerometer
     }
 ```
 
-Browse through the list of all [examples](https://github.com/eclipse/upm/tree/master/examples).
+Browse through the list of all [examples](/examples/).
 
 Multi-sensor samples for starter and specialized kits can be found in the
 [iot-devkit-samples](https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/iot-devkit-samples) repository.
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ Supported [sensor list](http://iotdk.intel.com/docs/master/upm/modules.html) fro
 The UPM project includes support for multiple industrial-grade sensors, actuators, radios,
 protocols and standards in use today. It is also highly integrated with the Eclipse IDE 
 through the help of the Foundation's partners.
-Learn more about [tools](https://software.intel.com/en-us/tools-by-segment/systems-iot).
 
 ### Installing UPM
 
@@ -87,9 +86,6 @@ Find notes on how to install UPM on various OS'es on this [page](docs/installing
 
 See building documentation [here](docs/building.md).
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/intel-iot-devkit/upm.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/intel-iot-devkit/upm)
-[![Quality Gate Status](https://sonarcloud.io/api/project_badges/measure?project=upm-master&metric=alert_status)](https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=upm-master)
-
 ### Guidelines and rules for new UPM contributions
 
 Before you begin development, take a look at our naming [conventions](docs/naming.md).
@@ -99,8 +95,8 @@ Next, review the project's [contribution guide](docs/contributions.md).
 
 Make sure you add yourself as an author on every new code file submitted.
 If you are providing a fix with significant changes, feel free to add yourself
-as a contributor. Signing-off your commits and accepting the ECA is mandatory
+as a contributor. Accepting the ECA is mandatory for making new contributions
-for making new contributions to this project.
+to this project.
 
 Documenting your code is also a big part of the task. We have a strict set of
 tags used to classify our sensors and their capabilities. You can find out more

docs/contributions.md

@@ -33,21 +33,20 @@ file:
 Eclipse Contributor Agreement
 ============
 
-Your contribution cannot be accepted unless you have a signed [ECA - Eclipse Foundation Contributor Agreement](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php) in place.
+Your contribution cannot be accepted unless you have a signed [ECA - Eclipse Foundation Contributor Agreement](https://www.eclipse.org/legal/eca/) in place.
 
 Here is the checklist for contributions to be considered _acceptable_:
 
-1. [Create an account at Eclipse](https://dev.eclipse.org/site_login/createaccount.php).
+1. [Create an account at Eclipse](https://accounts.eclipse.org/user/register).
 2. Add your GitHub user name in your account settings.
-3. [Log into the project's portal](https://projects.eclipse.org/) and sign the ["Eclipse ECA"](https://projects.eclipse.org/user/sign/cla).
+3. [Log in to the projects forge](https://www.eclipse.org/contribute/cla/) and sign the ["Eclipse ECA"](https://accounts.eclipse.org/user/eca).
-4. Ensure that you [_sign-off_](https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Contributing_via_Git#Signing_off_on_a_commit) your Git commits.
 5. Ensure that you use the _same_ email address as your Eclipse account in commits.
 6. Include the appropriate copyright notice and license at the top of each file.
 
-Your signing of the ECA will be verified by a webservice called 'ip-validation'
+Your signing of the ECA will be verified by a Github Check called 'eclipsefdn/eca'
-that checks the email address that signed-off on your commits has signed the
+that checks the email address that authored your commits has signed the
 ECA. **Note**: This service is case-sensitive, so ensure the email that signed
-the ECA and that signed-off on your commits is the same, down to the case.
+the ECA and that authored your commits is the same, down to the case.
 
 Creating a new sensor library using the sensortemplate
 =======================================