Merge tag 'v0.1-proposal' and additional changes

This merge is the result of  discussions at the Stammtisch on Monday,
Jan 28, 2013 and from a TeamL daily and a follow up email on Tuesday, Jan 29.
It was decided, that MONK is ready to be updated to a v0.1. This includes these
merges into Master, as well as a small update in the setup.py to the version
attribute and the added MANIFEST.in, which is necessary to have our real README
in the distutil's sdist package. There will also be a new package in the pypi
repository with this version.

Signed-off-by: Erik Bernoth <erik.bernoth@gmail.com>
Merge tag 'v0.1' into dev

Because some additional changes had to be inserted into the merge commit to
v0.1, dev needs to merge them back now. These include
 - adding a MANIFEST.in
 - some changes in the setup.py (like version string)