GitHub or Meetup for User Profiles

[caseywatts]

Examples

• NewHaven.io has a 'developers' section, github-focused
  • profile photos from github (users log in with github to connect)
  • store user details in a database (we don't want to do that), github username, twitter handle, linkedin, company affiliation, languages.
• Arlingtonruby.org has a 'community' section, meetup-focused
  • user images from meetup
  • links to users' meetup profiles

GitHub vs Meetup

I'm leaning more toward meetup for user management than github organizations for user management. I can imagine a way we could pull from both meetup and github and have a javascript object read in and de-duplicate entries from both lists? But I definitely wanna start with just one.

Meetup

• meetup group membership - we could use meetup group membership to be the source of tech-community-members data
  • users sign up to the meetup group, that's how they start appearing on the website
  • admins can invite users via Meetup
• data available member api
  • always: username, meetup profile url
  • sometimes also: picture, location, facebook, twitter, linkedin, 'interests'
• group by interests/skills - based on meetup 'interests' (topics) might work, data could be messy
• group users by affiliation? No company/school field available

GitHub

• github organizations - we could use github organizations to be the source of tech-community-members data
  • admins can invite users to the github organization
  • users can't add themselves (how could we accomplish this?)
• data available user api
  • always: an image (at least a placeholder) and username, github url
  • sometimes also: website, company, location (and previously twitter but I don't see it now?)
• group by interests/skills - no interests/skills listing on github?
• group by affiliation - use company field on GitHub

[benjaminoakes]

I was thinking of using both (and maybe even Twitter?), but Meetup seems like the more natural choice for a first iteration. If we could combine users together, we could link to their Twitter, GitHub, etc.

[meiao]

Hi guys,
I was looking at this tonight with @caseywatts and there are a couple of things I would like to say.

Github limits the number of queries to 60 during a certain period of time. And the query for members of an organization returns little information (username, avatar and a bunch of url for repos, organizations, followers...).
So if you want list the members of an organization (with names, companies, interests...), you have to query for the members of that organization and then query each individual user.

here are 2 queries that show the member and a user:
https://api.github.com/orgs/techcorridorio/members
https://api.github.com/users/meiao

That being said, I'd like to inform that I'll be working on a Meetup listing, as the Meetup API returns a more comprehensive user listing.

[caseywatts]

woo, thanks @meiao ! Full speed ahead on using Meetup >: D

[meiao]

Hi guys. I wasn't able to work as much as I wanted, but here is what I did.
It is based on @caseywatts 's code, but the design is not as good as.

http://meiao.github.io/techcorridorio.github.io/developers.html

I still need to make the pagination, then I'll prepare the pull request.

I will also make a default picture, if there is none.

Any constructive inputs on the design are welcome.

[benjaminoakes]

@meiao This looks great! Thanks for putting your time into this.