Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

On 7/28/20 3:22 AM, Christian Amsüss wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:28:07PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
>>   even within the IETF I wouldn't count on more people having
>>   Datatracker pix than gravatars.
> This doesn't need to be an either-or situation.
>
> I can't speak from practicial experience, but from what I can tell from
> using libravatar, this should be straightforward to implement by
>
> * Running a libravatar server for IETF (several implementations
>    available)
> * Exporting the datatracker profile pictures into the libravatar server
> * Enabling fallback to gravatar in the server
> * On the Meetecho side, all that'd be needed is a way for an
>    organization to set its own gravatar-compatible avatar endpoint
>    ([1] is what it took to do the same at redmine)
>
> Sounds like a "good first issue" to get started at a code sprint.
>
> Possibly, some of the remaining infrastructure might even want to use
> this for profile pictures -- which would give people without profile
> pictures their Gravatars where present, and allow them to configure
> profile images in their own domains as well.
>
> Kind regards
> Christian
>
> [1]: https://www.redmine.org/attachments/22943/avatar_service_url_configuration-v4.patch


I would like to see some stats about how many attendees have pics pulled 
from gravatar.  For the sessions that I have been in, it looks like only 
a few images are shown in the list of participants.

It might also be interesting to see the stats broken out by area.