unblock pip install/config

was:
---- Begin output of pip install Crowd ----
STDOUT: Downloading/unpacking Crowd
  Downloading Crowd-0.9.0.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Crowd
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/Crowd/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        long_description=open(os.path.join(__dir__, 'README.rst')).read(),
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip_build_root/Crowd/README.rst'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_root/Crowd/setup.py", line 13, in <module>

    long_description=open(os.path.join(__dir__, 'README.rst')).read(),