https://cepdnaclk.github.io/department-website-2013/people/e09.html

• Past heads of the department
• Temporary academic staff
• Academic support staff (only cards)

Hi!
We should add
<a href="#">Update this information Google Form</a>
right near the Edit this page on GitHub?

Use https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/tags/#links instead of hardcoding everything

There are two possible options

• Implement it in CSS level
• Write a python script to go through all images and resize /compress

Include documentation for,

• GitHub Action
• Python Scripts
• Maintainer Responsibilities (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vb9eTqLTf9tnCAtkQLbwsyixf76XjxqG4dza8b1AsY8/edit?usp=sharing)

Please fill in the other topics that are needed

• How to edit staff page
• How to add staff page
• How to change student profile image
• How to add student page
• How to edit a student page
• How to run website locally
• How to use API handled by api.ce.pdn.ac.lk
• How to add Past Heads of the Department
• Replace images in documentation as most of the styling was changed

There is no link to https://people.ce.pdn.ac.lk/documentation/run-locally/ from the documentation index page.

Should we add it back ?

@NuwanJ

Are they both them same ? or are they two batches ?

TODO:

• E/02A/320
• E/02/314

• Collect E15/E14 data
• Write python script
• Add profile images
• Create the pages

The followings are a few suggestions to improve the GUI

• Move the Documentation from the NavBar to Footer
• Remove Search page link from the NavBar and add a search box into the homepage (Once the search button is clicked, it will navigate to the search page with the keyword; can use GET to pass the keyword)

Currently shows the favicon from the site. Would be better if we have a font awesome style icon for this.
The link is shown in https://people.ce.pdn.ac.lk/staff/academic/roshan-ragel/

Currently it looks like this,

Hi! I think it is time to get rid of the WordPress pages. @NuwanJ might have a list of options on how to move forward with this.

• Material Design

We might need to get the URL for publication trackers for both students and staff. We might be able to use them to scrape people's pubs to create the publication repository of the department.

Almost everyone has a google scholar and we can collect that as the minimum. However, dblp and semanticscholar might be easier for API access compared to google scholar.

Followings are the new fields requested to add for the student pages (frontmatter):

• Current Affiliation (Default: Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, for the Alumni, the company they work)
• Department: Computer/Mechanical
• Graduation Year or Date: Empty for current students
• Bio (Similar to the staff pages, in the content, by default, it will be empty. We can provide examples in the documentation)

(Better if we discussed those changes in the next meeting, before implement)

If someone from E13 or earlier filled the Google Form, a profile page should be created and the link should be displayed on the batch page

Google form ResearchGate/Twitter swap

Please check if this is correct.

There was an update from E10, currently they dont have links to profile pages.
Change the layout to cards with profile links for available persons

I think people are more likely to update their profiles by filling a google form. We can have both options (github pull req and google form) for every profile. However, we might need to make the google form "login mandatory".

Also, we will have to update the .md files manually according to the form responses. It won't be a big issue since we will have a dedicated maintainer and the number of update requests per week will be very small.

All of the pages has the same title.
Give different titles for the pages
https://github.com/benbalter/jekyll-titles-from-headings only works on .md files

If the user doesn't log into the Google Account (or in the incognito window), the iframe is not working.
As a temporary solution, a redirection was added for the URL.

• added

@gihanjayatilaka suggested adding an "Edit this page on GitHub" button into the profile pages. Then students can easily find the file and edit it.

A similar implementation you can find on the following page:

• https://pera-swarm.ce.pdn.ac.lk/docs/robot/virtual-robot/setup-guide

Source: https://github.com/Pera-Swarm/docs

I'm thinking about having a single Form is better, since a student can be alumni in a later year, and manually updating that condition for each year/batch is not sustainable.

Prepared one with conditional pages (not finalized yet)

• https://forms.gle/XkArBdMtBVE5MqeNA

Can you comment on your opinions here?
@gihanjayatilaka @Akilax0 @ishanfdo18098 @Piumal1999

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/modal/

https://photoswipe.com/

• Add the Temporary Academic and Academic Support page update guidelines (in very brief guide is enough)

Names were collected from FEeLS.
Having Mr, Miss at the end of the name doesn't look that good.

Turn this,

Into this,

TODO

• Identify the possible requirements
• Write pre-processor python scripts
• Design the APIs
• Implement

We need to provide an iFrame option for staff members who haven't GitHub accounts, to fill the content in the staff profile pages

• iframe height should be automatically adjusted into the content height (no iframe scrollbars)
• Add an optional field to the staff page YML

This is a suggestion to add a new property/field to allow students to add their fields of interest.

Ex: IoT, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, etc...

This was a suggestion by Dr. Damayanthi to show the past academic, and academic support staff in the people site.

@NuwanJ will update the templates as discussed via a PR soon.

Currently, the images are not cropped just resized keeping the height, width ratio same.
Change to crop the image to be square

There is a suggestion to develop an advance search for the people site

• Only cards

We can gather the information from https://www.facebook.com/acespera/posts/4761622913947824 to fill our JSONs. This can be done using a simple script.

Prof. Roshan Ragel

Could we also include the list of projects under the staff profile pages as well? 
I believe it is there for the student profiles and not in staff?
...
I also realize the list for the staff one could go very long. 
Therefore, I am happy to hear any alternative solution you would have.

For the,

• Course projects, we can allow having links to the course page, if the staff member was supervised that course project.
• FYP research projects, I think we can directly add project cards to the supervisor's profile page.

We need to address the quantity issue in a sustainable and automated way. (I think we don't need to fill the staff profile page with 100+ projects in the next 5 years.)

I will try to assign this task to the team who work on the 6SP project, "Research Profiles for Academic Staff"

There is a privacy issue of showing the emails (especially the private email) on the profile page.
We will discuss and find a solution and update here.

• Add an option to decide whether it should be visible on the web
• Format the email in a way username [at] domain.com format in the web

Feel free to comment your suggestions also @ishanfdo18098 @Piumal1999

• Create html in _includes for breadcrumb
• Rewrite all breadcrumbs in pages using the template in _includes

TODO

• Identify the parameters
• Add necessary tags
• Decide folder structure
  • md file
  • image
• Implement
• Create files for existing students

There is a suggestion to show badges in the student profiles (Like in HackerRank / GitHub)

• Special Project Contributions
• Department issued certificates

Under development: https://nuwanj.github.io/people.ce.pdn.ac.lk/badges/
[Edit] Repo Link - https://github.com/NuwanJ/people.ce.pdn.ac.lk

ToDo

• Prepare the documentation
• Prepare the templates
• Prepare content descriptions for each badge - with Dr. Damayanthi
• Discuss the Casual Instructor Program - with Dr. Isuru
• Add previous casual instructors

Add all the requirements here

• Fill remaining Academic Staff pages
  • Prof. Roshan G. Ragel
  • Dr. Asitha Bandaranayake
  • Dr. Damayanthi Herath
  • Dr. Dhammika Elkaduwe
  • Dr. Eng. Kamalanath Samarakoon
  • Dr. Isuru Nawinne
  • Dr. Janaka Alawatugoda
  • Dr. Mahanama Wickramasinghe
  • Dr. Manjula Sandirigama
  • Dr. Shirley Devapriya Dewasurendra
  • Dr. Sithumini Ekanayake
  • Dr. Suneth Namal Karunarathna
  • Dr. Swarnalatha Radhakrishnan
  • Dr. Upul Jayasinghe
  • Mr. D. S. Deegalla
  • Mr. Ziyan Maraikar
• Fill Past Heads of the Department
• Fill Temporary Academic Staff
  • Link to profile page
• Fill Academic Support Staff