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Affiliation, location in DESCRIPTION file #83

Open aedin opened 4 years ago

aedin commented 4 years ago

In the DESCRIPTION file, add more info about Authors

Recently I was trying to find Bioc developer in Boston and I was unable to do this via package DESCRIPTION files. The time zone info might be useful for Zoom connections ;-)

lcolladotor commented 4 years ago

I like this quite a bit since I also think that being able to find other developers would be a great feature. Alejandro Reyes @areyesq89 once made a map of the location of Bioconductor developers shown here though if I recall correctly, this was a very hard task.

Having said the above, maybe one option to get the affiliation (and maybe from there guess the time zone and location) would be to use the ORCIDs and the rorcid package https://github.com/ropensci/rorcid. Maybe the check could complain if the author has not provided their location on their ORCID profile or something like that.

The above doesn't apply for Twitter (or social media), unless there's a way to provide this through ORCID (I haven't checked, sorry).

aedin commented 4 years ago

Thanks ORCID is really useful and should definitely be encouraged (I think its optional at the moment), maybe it could be "upped' to a warning.

Even with ORCID, it may not be possible to work out someone's location.
We could ask for location/timezone or maybe for a slack ID, Twitter ID. I think Slack captures timezone which is increasingly important in virtual meetings. Twitter handle would be great for new package promotion

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I like this quite a bit since I also think that being able to find other developers would be a great feature. Alejandro Reyes @areyesq89 https://github.com/areyesq89 once made a map of the location of Bioconductor developers shown here https://comunidadbioinfo.github.io/post/a-recap-of-cdsb-2018-the-start-of-a-community/#.XsM7wxNKg6g though if I recall correctly, this was a very hard task.

Having said the above, maybe one option to get the affiliation (and maybe from there guess the time zone and location) would be to use the ORCIDs and the |rorcid| package https://github.com/ropensci/rorcid. Maybe the check could complain if the author has not provided their location on their ORCID profile or something like that.

The above doesn't apply for Twitter (or social media), unless there's a way to provide this through ORCID (I haven't checked, sorry).

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