diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73167f7..489132d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ The format is roughly based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/
 
 <!-- start changelog -->
 
+## 0.37.0
+
+- move example configs inside package source tree ([#117](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator/issues/117))
+
 ## 0.36.0
 
 - openeo.cloud configs: only consider "vito" for SENTINEL2_L2A collection ([#139](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator/issues/139))
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1820f1b..d040b86 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -52,4 +52,5 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
     pip install .
 
 
+# TODO #117/#143 eliminate conf/gunicorn.prod.py reference
 CMD ["gunicorn", "--config=conf/gunicorn.prod.py", "openeo_aggregator.app:create_app()"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34f0abb..be2768f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ like command line options or env variables, as shown above.
 
 ### Gunicorn config
 
-For gunicorn there are also configuration files in the `conf` folder.
-The production docker based run for examples uses
+For gunicorn there is an example config at `src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py`,
+for example to be used like this:
 
-    gunicorn --config=conf/gunicorn.prod.py openeo_aggregator.app:create_app()
+    gunicorn --config=src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py openeo_aggregator.app:create_app()
 
 ### Application/Flask config
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ is grouped by an `AggregatorBackendConfig` container object
 (subclass of `OpenEoBackendConfig` as defined in the `openeo-python-driver` framework project).
 The most important config value is `aggregator_backends`, which
 defines the backends to "aggregate".
-See `src/openeo_aggregator/config.py` for more details and other available configuration options.
+See `src/openeo_aggregator/config/config.py` for more details and other available configuration options.
 
 The `conf` folder contains config files for the dev and production
 variant of this application config:
@@ -78,11 +78,9 @@ variant of this application config:
 - `conf/aggregator.prod.py`
 
 Use the env var `OPENEO_BACKEND_CONFIG` to point to the desired config path.
-By default, `conf/aggregator.dummy.py` is loaded.
+For example, using the example dummy config from the repo:
 
-For example, when using the Docker image, add something like this
-
-    -e OPENEO_BACKEND_CONFIG=/home/openeo/aggregator/conf/aggregator.dev.py
+    export OPENEO_BACKEND_CONFIG=src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/aggregator.dummy.py
 
 Also note that these concrete config files will be refactored out of the `openeo-aggregator` repo
 at some point in the future ([#117](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator/issues/117))
diff --git a/conf/gunicorn.dev.py b/conf/gunicorn.dev.py
index dbbe8df..260f185 100644
--- a/conf/gunicorn.dev.py
+++ b/conf/gunicorn.dev.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # See https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html
+# TODO #117 eliminate this file from this repository
 
 bind = ["0.0.0.0:8080"]
 
diff --git a/conf/gunicorn.prod.py b/conf/gunicorn.prod.py
index b851c6d..1554834 100644
--- a/conf/gunicorn.prod.py
+++ b/conf/gunicorn.prod.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # See https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html
+# TODO #117 eliminate this file from this repository
 
 bind = ["0.0.0.0:8080"]
 
diff --git a/scripts/run-gunicorn.sh b/scripts/run-gunicorn.sh
index ac5ac91..9910464 100755
--- a/scripts/run-gunicorn.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-gunicorn.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-gunicorn --config=conf/gunicorn.dev.py 'openeo_aggregator.app:create_app()'
+gunicorn --config=src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py 'openeo_aggregator.app:create_app()'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9f8ec35..1f6ee04 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@
     url="https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator",
     packages=find_packages(where="src", include=["openeo_aggregator", "openeo_aggregator.*"]),
     package_dir={"": "src"},
+    package_data={"openeo_aggregator": ["config/examples/*.py"]},
     include_package_data=True,
     data_files=[
         (
             "openeo-aggregator-data",
             [
                 "CHANGELOG.md",
+                # TODO #117 eliminate gunicorn.dev.py reference
                 "conf/gunicorn.dev.py",
+                # TODO #117 eliminate gunicorn.prod.py reference
                 "conf/gunicorn.prod.py",
-                "conf/aggregator.dummy.py",
             ],
         ),
     ],
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/about.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/about.py
index fa9a1e7..d7a9f53 100644
--- a/src/openeo_aggregator/about.py
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/about.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import sys
 from typing import Optional
 
-__version__ = "0.36.0a1"
+__version__ = "0.37.0a1"
 
 
 def log_version_info(logger: Optional[logging.Logger] = None):
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/config/__init__.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc3e5f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from openeo_aggregator.config.config import (
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT,
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_INIT,
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_LOGS,
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_START,
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESULT,
+    STREAM_CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT,
+    AggregatorBackendConfig,
+    ConfigException,
+    ProcessAllowed,
+    get_backend_config,
+)
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/config.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/config.py
similarity index 100%
rename from src/openeo_aggregator/config.py
rename to src/openeo_aggregator/config/config.py
diff --git a/conf/aggregator.dummy.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/aggregator.dummy.py
similarity index 100%
rename from conf/aggregator.dummy.py
rename to src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/aggregator.dummy.py
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34d6d90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/config/examples/gunicorn-config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# See https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html
+
+bind = ["0.0.0.0:8080"]
+
+workers = 1
+threads = 1
+
+# Worker timeout
+timeout = 60
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/testing.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/testing.py
index 2d780c7..6cf60d8 100644
--- a/src/openeo_aggregator/testing.py
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/testing.py
@@ -321,6 +321,6 @@ def config_overrides(**kwargs):
         ... def test_stuff():
     """
     return openeo_driver.testing.config_overrides(
-        config_getter=openeo_aggregator.config._config_getter,
+        config_getter=openeo_aggregator.config.config._config_getter,
         **kwargs,
     )