diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d0c8c6d..066dbbc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ This file is used to list changes made in each version of cookbook-openstack-ops
 ## 10.0.1
 * Configure rabbitmq port for both ssl and non-ssl cases
 * Fix metadata version constraint for common
-
 * Bump Chef gem to 11.16
 
 ## 10.0.0
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7153493
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Contributing
+============
+
+How To Get Started
+------------------
+
+If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack Chef Cookbooks,
+you must follow the steps in the "If you're a developer"
+section of this page:
+
+   http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute
+
+Gerrit Workflow
+---------------
+
+Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack
+should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool, following
+the workflow documented at:
+
+   http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs
+----
+
+Bugs should be filed on Launchpad, not GitHub:
+
+   https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-chef
+
+Contacts
+--------
+
+Mailing list: groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack
+IRC: #openstack-chef is our channel on irc.freenode.net
+Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Chef/GettingStarted and https://docs.getchef.com/openstack.html
+Twitter: @chefopenstack
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 80fb122..849d720 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,12 +79,13 @@ License and Author
 | **Author**           |  Craig Tracey (<craigtracey@gmail.com>)            |
 | **Author**           |  Ionut Artarisi (<iartarisi@suse.cz>)              |
 | **Author**           |  JieHua Jin (<jinjhua@cn.ibm.com>)                 |
+| **Author**           |  Mark Vanderwiel (<vanderwl@us.ibm.com>)           |
 |                      |                                                    |
 | **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013, Opscode, Inc.                 |
 | **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013, Craig Tracey                  |
 | **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013, AT&T Services, Inc.           |
 | **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013, SUSE Linux  GmbH.             |
-| **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013, IBM Corp.                     |
+| **Copyright**        |  Copyright (c) 2013-2014, IBM Corp.                |
 
 
 
diff --git a/TESTING.md b/TESTING.md
index b38785b..fa2e9c1 100644
--- a/TESTING.md
+++ b/TESTING.md
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ The `rake` tasks will take care of installing the needed gem dependencies and co
 
 ## Chefspec
 
-[ChefSpec](http://code.sethvargo.com/chefspec/) is a unit testing framework for testing Chef cookbooks. ChefSpec makes it easy to write examples and get fast feedback on cookbook changes without the need for virtual machines or cloud servers.
+[ChefSpec](https://github.com/sethvargo/chefspec/) is a unit testing framework for testing Chef cookbooks. ChefSpec makes it easy to write examples and get fast feedback on cookbook changes without the need for virtual machines or cloud servers.
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 3c46ae3..cec94d3 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # encoding: UTF-8
 name              'openstack-ops-messaging'
-maintainer        'Chef Software, Inc.'
-maintainer_email  'matt@getchef.com'
+maintainer       'openstack-chef'
+maintainer_email 'opscode-chef-openstack@googlegroups.com'
 license           'Apache 2.0'
 description       'Provides the shared messaging configuration for Chef for OpenStack.'
 version           '10.0.1'