This is one of GitHub's special repositories that controls organization settings.
THIS MUST BE HERE DO NOT DELETE
The ./profile/README.md file is the public organization README.
This is different than the private CWS README located at https://github.com/Auburn-CWS/.github-private.
The global pull request template is also stored here at ./PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. Customize this if you want the PRs to load up with a different template.
There are also global templates here for GitHub issues. They're stored in the ./.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE directory.
Meaning why store them in a public repo?
Because it is not possible to control these things in a global private repo. Doesn't work. It has to be the public .github repo inside an organization at this point in time.
Doesn't really matter because these files are not sensitive.