Add authors and small edits to the doc

AUTHORS.md

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+# Project Contributors
+
+The following people have made contributions to this project:
+
+<!--- Use your GitHub account or any other personal reference URL --->
+<!--- If you wish to not use your real name, please use your github username --->
+<!--- The list should be alphabetical by last name if possible, with github usernames at the bottom  and the istitution --->
+
+<!--- See https://gist.github.com/djhoese/52220272ec73b12eb8f4a29709be110d for auto-generating parts of this list --->
+
+- [Alexis Berne](https://people.epfl.ch/alexis.berne?lang=en) - EPFL
+- [Gionata Ghiggi (ghiggi)](https://github.com/ghiggi) - EPFL
+- [Jacopo Grazioli (jacgraz)](https://github.com/jacgraz) - EPFL
+- [Saverio Guzzo  (saveriogzz)](https://github.com/saveriogzz) - TU DELFT
+- [Kim Candolfi (KimCandolfi)](https://github.com/KimCandolfi) - EPFL
+- [Régis Longchamp (regislon)](https://github.com/regislon) - EPFL
+- [Son Pham-Ba (sphamba)](https://github.com/sphamba) - EPFL
+- [Charlotte Gisèle Weil  (charlottegiseleweil)](https://github.com/charlottegiseleweil) - EPFL

CONTRIBUTING.rst

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 - `Contributing environment setup <#contributing-environment-setup>`__
 - `Contributing process <#contributing-process>`__
 - `Code review checklist <#code-review-checklist>`__
-- `Financial contribution <#financial-contribution>`__
 
 
 
@@ -477,13 +476,10 @@ Code review checklist
 
 .. _section-2:
 
-Financial Contribution
-----------------------
-
-We also welcome financial contributions. Please contact us directly.
 
 Credits
 -------
 
-Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to DISDRODB.
-repository!
+Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to DISDRODB repository!
+
+If you have contributed data and/or code to disdrodb, add your name to the `AUTHORS.md <https://github.com/ltelab/disdrodb/blob/main/AUTHORS.md>`__ file.

SECURITY.md

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+# Security Policy
+
+## Supported Versions
+
+disdrodb is currently pre-1.0 and includes some changes in every release. As such we can't
+guarantee that releases before 1.0 will see security updates except for the most recent
+release. After 1.0, you can expect more stability in the interfaces and security fixes to be
+backported more regularly.
+
+| Version | Supported          |
+| ------- | ------------------ |
+| 0.x.x (latest)   | :white_check_mark: |
+| < 0.0.17   | :x:                |
+
+## Unsafe YAML Loading
+
+disdrodb allows for unsafe loading of YAML configuration files. Any YAML files
+from untrusted sources should be sanitized of possibly malicious code.
+
+## Reporting a Vulnerability
+
+Do you think you've found a security vulnerability or issue in this project? Let us know by sending
+a message to the maintainers. Please include as much information on
+the issue as possible like code examples, documentation on the issue in other packages, etc.

docs/source/authors.rst

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+.. _list_authors:
+
+.. mdinclude:: ../../AUTHORS.md

docs/source/index.rst

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    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
-Welcome to disdroDB's documentation!
+Welcome to disdrodb's documentation!
 =======================================
 
 DISDRODB: A global database of raindrop size distribution observations
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ difficult to share, analyse, compare and re-use.
 
 Additionally, very limited software is currently publicly available for DSD processing.
 
-This software aims to define a standard format to save disdrometer data.
-
+This software aims to define a standard format to save disdrometer data and to create a decentralized archive to promote the exchange of data across the scientific community.
+Currently, disdrodb enables to process data acquired from the OTT Parsivel (``OTT_Parsivel``), OTT Parsivel2 (``OTT_Parsivel2``), Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (``ThiesLPM``) and RD-80 (``RD_80``) disdrometers.
 
 
 Documentation
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    l0_processing
    contributors_guidelines
    maintainers_guidelines
-
+   authors
 
 
 

docs/source/sensor_configs.rst

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 DISDRODB tailor the processing of the disdrometer measurements according
 to the instrument type and characteristics.
 
-Several sensor configurations are already implemented and can be seen
-by typing the command:
+Currently, disdrodb enables to process data acquired from the OTT Parsivel (``OTT_Parsivel``), OTT Parsivel2 (``OTT_Parsivel2``), Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (``ThiesLPM``) and RD-80 (``RD_80``) disdrometers.
+
+
+The sensor configurations already implemented can be listed by typing the command:
 
 .. code-block:: python