@Faalentijn
Thanks for your contribution.
This seems to be working.
However, if I may nitpick:

1. please remove the redundant empty line which was added to the end of the Makefile.
2. (if you want) add yourself to the AUTHORS.rst

and then we can merge :)

I seem to have accidentally closed this pull request after I started following the guidelines more closely. Kind of fitting since I changed the scope of the pull request quite a bit.

I decided to address both my concerns by adding some of the external files (authors, changes, contrib) and grouping similar functionalities together. It is still a work in progress but I'd still like if it you could give me your feedback on it.

You can find it here.