Superstar page should contain gravatar of the members.

[shahbaz17]

We can use github's open api for this. Visit https://developer.github.com/v3/users for more info on how to get it.

GET request to https://api.github.com/users/{username} return public information

GET https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi returns

{
  "login": "gurumukhi",
  "id": 2748973,
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/2748973?v=3",
  "gravatar_id": "",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/gurumukhi",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/gurumukhi/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "site_admin": false,
  "name": "Ram",
  "company": null,
  "blog": "http://gurumukhi.wordpress.com/",
  "location": "Hyderabad, India",
  "email": null,
  "hireable": true,
  "bio": "I'm a web developer at Arcesium India, a Mozilla contributor & a tech speaker. I love to explore and talk about future technologies (diving into WebVR lately).",
  "public_repos": 47,
  "public_gists": 1,
  "followers": 14,
  "following": 6,
  "created_at": "2012-11-08T07:19:26Z",
  "updated_at": "2017-05-02T14:58:16Z"
}

which we can store it on firebase's database(free) so that we need not have to make API call to github everytime user visits website( which is limited ). Also we can store these data on client side using localStorage when they open the website for the first time.

@gurumukhi @lavish205 @Srushtika @akshit13 @tushararora @viswanathamsantosh any suggestions ?

[lavish205]

instead can't we directly keep images in a gravatar folder?

• We can easily access and render all the images.
• no need for extra database
• no need to make extra API calls
• and no need to write extra javascript to make api call and store into the database.

[shahbaz17]

dynamic is best than static . And in this process participants will also learn how things work. And one of the goal of this website is that prepare participants who can work on mozilla's other website as now-a-days everything is built on jekyll ( mostly :wink: ). And if we talk talk about making API call and databases , so i guess these are the tools one should know if they are web developer.

Open for discussion and suggestion.

[gurumukhi]

Implementing this has all drawbacks mentioned by lavish, this will take time and lot of efforts. I think for now we can go ahead with static approach version 1, but at same time lets keep this open and we will do it in version 2 of the website.

[lavish205]

zen of python rule no. 3:

Simple is better than complex.

Lets go with simple version for now.