Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 04 2026 at 16:18): Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 04 2026 at 16:18):In my Community Updates talk at the 2024 Dataverse Community Meeting, I briefly presented https://people.dataverse.org
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 04 2026 at 16:18):Here's the slide:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 04 2026 at 16:21):My idea has always been to lightly maintain a spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o9DD-MQ0WkrYaEFTD5rF_NtyL8aUISgURsAXSL7Budk/edit?usp=sharing
I use GitHub usernames as the primary key.
And I associate these usernames with an installation of Dataverse, if I know which one.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 04 2026 at 16:22):My idea has always been to retrieve extra information about the person from the GitHub API.
Last night I vibed coded this! Using Codex! I built a whole new app that I'm hosting (for now) at http://server4.greptilian.com/tmp/people.dataverse.org
It's very much a work in progress but I always like sharing early. :smile: Feedback is welcome!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:43):Ok! I updated DNS and the rewrite of https://people.dataverse.org is live! I'd love to hear what you think about it! :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:44):I showed above how bare-bones the old cards were. The new cards have a lot more detail:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:45):Also, we can now have our own profile page on the site. Mine is https://people.dataverse.org/pdurbin for example.
Your username on the site is your GitHub username.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:47):The whole site is based on GitHub, actually. The idea is to manually track as little information as possible in a spreadsheet (especially GitHub username) and then pull in as much information as we can from various sources (such as the GitHub API to get the name, bio, etc.). I wrote some more details in the README at https://github.com/gdcc/people.dataverse.org
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:47):You can also filter in various ways:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 06 2026 at 13:48):You can see who else is part of your installation or country (the country is based on the installation, not whatever is under "location" on your GitHub profile).
Julian Gautier (Apr 06 2026 at 16:07):Looks very helpful!
Julian Gautier (Apr 09 2026 at 00:24):I just noticed that your slides from the community meeting show a spreadsheet with a "Sweets" column, but it's removed, so we'll forget that @Don Sizemore likes KitKats :chocolate:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 09 2026 at 02:33):Ha, right, that was an idea from @Oliver Bertuch that he wrote about in the old repo: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-people/issues/1
I dunno, I guess I'm trying to simply things. I deleted some other columns from the spreadsheet too. We're down to columns I don't mind maintaining:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 09 2026 at 02:35):I'm using the "Issue" column to have something to click to learn more about the person. I put this link under "see also" on the card. Often the person has written up a really thoughtful issue and I just don't happen to know anything else about them. So it's a way for me to remind myself at least a little bit about who this person is.
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