add contribution links and issue templates

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

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+blank_issues_enabled: false
+contact_links:
+  - name: Security Contact
+    about: Please report security vulnerabilities to security@learnhouse.app
+  - name: Question or Problem
+    about: Ask a question or ask about a problem in GitHub Discussions.
+    url: https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/questions
+  - name: Feature Request
+    about: To suggest an idea or ask about a feature, please start with a question saying what you would like to achieve. There might be a way to do it already.
+    url: https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/questions
+  - name: Show and tell
+    about: Show what you built with LearnHouse or to be used with LearnHouse.
+    url: https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/show-and-tell

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/verified.yml

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+name: Verified
+description: Someone from the team allowed you to create an issue here
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        Thanks for your interest in LearnHouse 💖
+
+        If you are not someone from the team or the team didn't ask you directly to create an issue here, please start the conversation in a [Question in GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/questions) instead.
+  - type: checkboxes
+    id: verified
+    attributes:
+      label: Verified issue
+      description: Confirm that you are allowed to create an issue here.
+      options:
+        - label: Someone from the team allowed me to create an issue here
+          required: true
+  - type: textarea
+    id: content
+    attributes:
+      label: Issue Content
+      description: Add the content of the issue here.

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to LearnHouse
+
+## Backend Codebase
+
+### Tech
+
+- **FastAPI** - A high performance, async API framework for Python
+- **Pydantic** - Data validation and settings management using Python type annotations.
+- **Ruff** - An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.
+- **Motor** - the async Python driver for MongoDB and Tornado or asyncio
+- **Uvicorn** - an ASGI web server implementation for Python.
+
+### Get started
+
+Use the Docker Image available in `./Dockerfile`
+
+    docker-compose up -d
+
+Initiate a dev environment, please check the official guide [here](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env)
+
+## Frontend Codebase
+
+### Tech
+
+- **Next.js** (13 with the App Directory) - The React Framework
+- **TailwindCSS** - Styling
+- **Radix UI** - Accessible UI Components
+- **Tiptap** - An editor framework and headless wrapper around ProseMirror
+- **YJS** - Shared data types for building collaborative software
+- **MongoDB** - NoSQL Database
+- **React** - duh
+
+### Get started
+
+Use the Docker Image available in `front/Dockerfile`, or install the frontend package on your computer for greater performance.
+
+#### Start the Backend server first
+
+You need to have the backend running, to initiate a dev environment please check the official guide [here](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env)
+
+#### Environment Files
+
+Please check if you initiated your `.env` files, here is a [guide](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env) on how to do it.
+
+#### Install the frontend package
+
+    npm i
+
+#### Run in Dev environment
+
+    npm run dev
+
+## Submitting Contributions
+
+This project follows [GitHub's standard forking model](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/). Please fork the project to submit pull requests.
+
+### Submitting a bug/fix
+
+- Start an issue [here](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/issues) to report the bug.
+- Please include a detailed description of the bug and how it can be reproduced.
+- Someone from the team will review the issue and will give you a go ahead.
+
+### Submitting a feature / idea
+
+- Start a Discussion [here](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/ideas) to propose your idea and how it should be implemented.
+- Someone from the team will review your idea and will give you a go ahead.
+- Start an issue & link the discussion to it.
+- Clone your fork locally
+- Create a new branch and make your commits
+- Push your commits to your forked repo
+- Make a Pull request
+- Code will be added after review

README.md

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-
-
 <p align="center">
   <a href="https://learnhouse.app">
     <img src=".github/images/readme.png" height="300">
@@ -32,31 +30,32 @@ Please visit our  [Discord](https://discord.gg/CMyZjjYZ6x) community 👋
 ## Contributing
 
 Thank you for you interest 💖, here is how you can help :
- - Getting started 
+
+- [Getting Started](/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 - Submit a bug report
- - Check good first issues 
+- [Check good first issues & Help Wanted](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22+label%3A%22help+wanted%22)
 - Spread the word and share the project with your friends
 
 ## Documentation
 
 - Features
-	 - Courses 
+  - [Courses](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/courses)
-	 - Activities 
+  - [Activities](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/activities)
-		 - Dynamic Activities 
+    - [Dynamic Pages](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/activities/dynamic-pages)
-		 - Video Activities 
+    - [Video Activities](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/activities/video)
-		 - Documents Activities
+    - [Document Activities](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/activities/documents)
-	- Collections 
+  - [Collections](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/collections)
-	- Trail 
+  - [Trail](https://docs.learnhouse.app/features/trail)
 - Self Hosting
-	- Overview
+  - [Overview](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/overview)
-	- Organization Hosting Modes 
+  - [Organization Hosting Modes](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/organization-hosting-modes)
-	- Docker / Kubernetes 
+  - [Docker & Kubernetes](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/docker-and-kube)
-	- Using Vercel
+  - [Using Vercel](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/vercel)
   - Content Storage
-		- Using the FileSystem
+    - [Using the Filesystem](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/content-storage/filesystem)
-		- Using AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2 
+    - [Using AWS S3 or CloudFlare R2](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/self-hosting/content-storage/s3)
 - Technical Docs
-	- Infrastructure Overview  
+  - [Infrastructure Overview](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/infra-overview)
   - Database overview
   - API Overview
 
@@ -77,4 +76,4 @@ LearnHouse uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
 
 Learnhouse is made with 💜, from the UI to the features it is carefully designed to make students and teachers lives easier and make education software more enjoyable.
 
-Thank you and have fun using/developing/testing Learnhouse !
+Thank you and have fun using/developing/testing LearnHouse !