Teammates: Update aboutUs page to reflect Aug 2017 team structure

[damithc]

@HirdayGupta @VamsiSangam @sujeet14108 @LimeTheCoder @Mynk96 @amarlearning can you post here suitable photos to be used in the About Us page?

Requirements: clean background (no need to remove background), shoulders visible,
Preferred: informally dressed, smiling :-)

[HirdayGupta]

@damithc Sir, would this be okay?

[VamsiSangam]

Is this pic ok sir? It is the same as my current GitHub pic.

[amarlearning]

Sir will this work? :sweat_smile:

[sujeet14108]

Here is the pic :)

[damithc]

Here is the pic :)

@sujeet14108 shoulders need to be visible.

[Mynk96]

Sir, is this image fine?

[damithc]

Sir, is this image fine?

@Mynk96 too blurry/noisy. I should be able to extract you from the background cleanly, which requires a relatively clean image.

[wkurniawan07]

@LiHaoTan you should, too

[damithc]

@LiHaoTan you should, too

yup.

[damithc]

@sujeet14108 @LimeTheCoder @Mynk96 reminder

[sujeet14108]

@damithc check this pic :sweat_smile:

[Mynk96]

@damithc check this pic :)

[wkurniawan07]

@LimeTheCoder let's not forget to post your photo here

[damithc]

I've attached the processed photos. Need to resize though.

@LimeTheCoder please upload your photo soon. Otherwise we wont be able to include you in the page.

[damithc]

• Move Hong Jin, Josephine, Jun Hao, and Thyagesh to 'past members' as they haven't been active that much in recent times.
• Wilson --> Project Mentor
• Yuan Bin --> Project Lead
• John, Thenaesh, Yi Min --> Area Lead
• Li Hao --> Senior Developer
• Amar Prakash Pandaey, Hirday Gupta, Mayank Harsani, Sujeet, Vamsi Sangam, --> major contributor
• Yong Jie, Lakmal, Serhii, Tarun --> move to past members
• Taras Sakharchuk : to be added as major contributor if photo is uploaded

[LimeTheCoder]

Guys, really sorry for the delay here. I'll deliver photo within next few days.

[wkurniawan07]

@damithc I don't think this should wait for photo; absence of photo is too trivial a reason to downplay anyone's contribution. We can easily make a placeholder for it similar to absence of student profile pictures.
@LimeTheCoder of course, it would be better if you can send photo.

[damithc]

Yes, we can go ahead with the update.
If there is no photo, we can add @LimeTheCoder into a section that already have others without photo. e.g. Past committers.
I don't want to use placeholders because it gives a bad impression that we are unable to get photos from our developers.

[wkurniawan07]

I don't want to use placeholders because it gives a bad impression that we are unable to get photos from our developers.

Not necessarily, at least for me. As evident right now, we have tried albeit with no success. Some people may also want to stay unidentifiable by face and we have to respect such request if it ever happens (although I don't think @LimeTheCoder here is one such case). The point is that I don't believe placeholders correlate to "bad impressions".
Also, "past committers don't have photo" is just a coincidence. When the current committers become past committers, that statement no longer applies.

[damithc]

Good point: some developers may not want their photo on the page.
I'd really rather not use the egghead image in the page though, as it ruins the page and gives it an 'incomplete' feeling. If at all, we can list those people at the bottom of the respective list, without a dummy photo, so that it blends in and isn't the first thing to catch attention of a casual viewer.

[wkurniawan07]

@LimeTheCoder any chance you can send us photo soon?