adding a reconnect method; Issue #269
putting the conventions into the contributing section
taking out the WIP qualifier; I'll put WIP on the notebook itself
adding python to framework
adding videos/notebooks to index page
removing material that went else where
just some formatting changes
Merge pull request #288 from SuperCowPowers/add_to_rtd

Add to rtd
Merge pull request #285 from SuperCowPowers/cli_server_args

adding a reconnect method; Issue #269
adding cli to the test environments
Revert "adding cli to the test environments"

This reverts commit 8b3040e8b55ad826065e016bd1c94f2be2f196dc.
removing some extraneous material
Merge branch 'master' into building_report_client