What features should be included in each member's profile?

[KirstieJane]

At the moment we have:

The Basics

• First name
• Last name
• Middle initial(s)
• Title
• Highest academic degree
• Current job title
• Current Dept/Institution/Company
• Current country of residence
• Gender

Expertise

• Field
• Specialization
• Keywords
• Pubmed link
• GitHub link
• ORCID

Role model summary:

• Woman
• Person of colour
• LGBTQ
• Person with disability
• Non-traditional career path
• Parent or carer
• Other (free text)

Contact information:

• Email
• Personal website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• IRC

Testimonials

• Added by members of the app

To be categorised

• Details of previous invited presentations
• Youtube clips

[amitkumarj441]

@KirstieJane You should include some more features in Member`s profile.
Following are the features that must be included are:

• The Basics
• Gender
• Date of Birth

Expertise

1. Specialization

Role Model Summary

1. Religion

Contact Information

1. IRC

[KirstieJane]

Thanks @amitkumarj441! I'm totally fine with adding gender to the basics! You're right that one should certainly be there. I'll also add specialization, although I think we might need to refine the exact terms we're using at some point

I'm not so sure about date of birth though. I don't know why one would want to select on that. Maybe if they want to have young researchers?? But I don't think that's a particularly positive message. They could select junior researchers and therefore support those in the early stages of their career, but I don't think this is the same as their age. I'm going to leave this open for a little longer and see what others think!

It's a similar point for being a role model according to your religion. I haven't read any articles that have pointed out an under-representation of particular religions and I'm not sure that promoting religion is a major goal - would it be better to be a role model for a country or ethnic group rather than a religion?

Again - I'm going to leave this open for more discussion - it may be that I'm in a privileged group and so don't see the benefits!

Can you give me some examples of what would go in the IRC field? What would it look like?

Thanks for the suggestions!

[amitkumarj441]

Hi @KirstieJane,
I got your point.
Basically, IRC is a text based chat. Simple Text. IRC is very operator centric. You can have one on one chat as well , but in order to get to know someone you first have to enter "main room". There are operators in each room given that they are chosen by person who creates the room( you can create your own room). They have control your life as you know it in the room. If they want, for whatever reason, they can ban you from chat room for any length of time. Actually, they are treated as celebrities in the room.
I would love to answer more on IRC, please let me know.
I suggest you to create a list of topics where documentation needed.

Cheers,
Amit Kumar Jaiswal

[Ryuno-Ki]

Hi, @KirstieJane, you can include an IRC-client on a webpage, too. For example via Kiwi IRC. IRC does not require registration as the alternatives do:

Some seem to prefer Slack over IRC in the younger past.
If you're focussing on contributions on GitHub (that is, demand a GitHub account), you could create a Gitter channel as well. Take a look at Aurelia's one for example.

Disclaimer: I'm using Sabayon Linux and am in the process of cleaning up their upcoming static site generated website :-)

[KirstieJane]

Hi @Ryuno-Ki - I'm totally fine with adding IRC (done, above) not sure why you'd want to have slack or gitter in the member's profile? We do have both of those for communication with developers. See #26

[Ryuno-Ki]

The entry barrier is lower, since you don't need to register upfront.

Gitter's log is awkward and slack is proprietary. You can offer it anyway, though.

Maybe looking at a Mozillians profile to get inspired about the markup. (I can provide a list of offered communication slots if you want).

[KirstieJane]

The point of the members profile is to help conference organisers find people to speak at their event. So you definitely need to be able to reach out to them and find out information (email, linkedin, twitter etc), but you don't need ways to communicate with groups (slack/gitter).

[Ryuno-Ki]

Okay, so a focus on 1:1 communication.

A fellow student pointed me to http://www.orcid.org a few minutes ago.

[KirstieJane]

Great call @Ryuno-Ki! ORCID should definitely be part of the profile!

(Edit - it already is! I was wondering why I hadn't put it in there! Phew.)