diff --git a/docs/contributing.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
similarity index 99%
rename from docs/contributing.md
rename to CONTRIBUTING.md
index f4bf41a..b623e76 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Contributing to libmraa                           {#contributing} 
+Contributing to libmraa                           {#contributing}
 ======================
 
 libmraa is an opensource project and we are actively looking for people to help
diff --git a/Doxyfile.in b/Doxyfile.in
index 9cf9263..e702b8c 100644
--- a/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/Doxyfile.in
@@ -755,7 +755,8 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 
 INPUT                  = @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/api/ \
                          @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/api/mraa/ \
-                         @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/docs/
+                         @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/docs/ \
+                         @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/CONTRIBUTING.md
 
 # This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files
 # that doxygen parses. Internally doxygen uses the UTF-8 encoding. Doxygen uses
diff --git a/Doxyfile.java.in b/Doxyfile.java.in
index a76ead0..db86d33 100644
--- a/Doxyfile.java.in
+++ b/Doxyfile.java.in
@@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 INPUT                  = @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/api/ \
                          @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/api/mraa/ \
                          @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/docs/ \
+                         @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md \
                          @CMAKE_BINARY_DIR@/src/ \
                          @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/docs/index.java.md \
                          @CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/README.md