Documentation improvements.

Include OpenWrt feed and installation instructions, as well as more details (and a README link) on how to contribute to the project.

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 [GitHub Help](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) for more
 information on using pull requests.
 
+## Code style, structure & principles
+
+Please keep consistent with the existing code style, which is inspired
+by (the non-C++-specific parts of) the [Google C++ Style
+Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html), with a few
+exceptions: no mixed-case names, and a 100-character line length
+limit.
+
+The goal of the project is to be lightweight and have no large
+external dependencies. If you wish to add a collector that inherently
+depends on a library, it should be optional to the build, and probably
+not included by default.
+
+All exported metrics should be related to the node (host, machine...)
+the exporter is running on, not to any specific service running on
+it. Services should optimally export their own metrics natively, or
+via an exporter specific to the service. Alternatively, you might be
+interested in [mtail](https://github.com/google/mtail), which extracts
+monitoring data from log files.
+
 ## Community Guidelines
 
 This project follows [Google's Open Source Community