[boost] People and pictures?

[Beman Dawes]

The "People" section of the web site currently has capsule biographies and pictures for 30 people.

There should probably be two or three times that many people represented; there are 54 developers with write access to CVS, and beyond those there are lots of people who make important contributions to Boost without actually ever touching the CVS.

While I very much want to continue the Boost tradition of capsule biographies and pictures, we need to deal with some problems of the current organization:

* The size of the pictures (20-30K for the big pictures, 3K for the thumbnails) is a serious problem when we think of doubling or tripling the number of people represented. The problem isn't an individual picture, but rather the impact of all the pictures on the distribution .zip and .gz files. The picture files also slow backups of the CVS tarball.

* Because getting the pictures ready is tricky, I've been the only one doing it. That creates a bottleneck. Like so many other Boost activities, we need to broaden this so any of the CVS regulars can add people.

It seems to me one solution is to move the pictures to some location other than CVS. Probably the Boost SourceForge disk allotment.

The capsule biographies would stay on the CVS, and thus would continue to be part of the web site and distribution files.

Because adding a new biography will be much simpler, anyone with CVS write access would be able to do it. We'd have to write up a little guideline, but that shouldn't be a problem.

A second solution would be to change to a smaller, lower-res picture. But that just makes it all the harder to prepare nice pictures.

Comments?

--Beman

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