Research software engineers in the Nordics

Documentation about the data format and fields

You can add yourself or your group to this map by sending a pull request changing the data file.

The data is provided in YAML format.

Persons and groups

The data contains a list of persons and a list of groups. Some people will prefer to be listed individually but some will prefer to be represented only as group. You can do either. There are also places (see below).

persons:
  - name: John Doe
    homepage: https://example.org
    email: '[email protected]'
    lat: 55.715043
    lon: 13.212401
  - name: Radovan Bast
    homepage: https://bast.fr
    twitter: __radovan
    github: bast
    gitlab: bast
    place: UiT
    skills: ['Python', 'Git', 'JavaScript', 'CMake', 'Rust', 'Fortran']

groups:
  - name: "Aalto RSE group"
    num_members: 10
    homepage: https://scicomp.aalto.fi
    twitter: SciCompAalto
    github: AaltoScienceIT
    place: Aalto
  - name: "NTNU Trondheim RSE Community"
    num_members: 10
    homepage: https://rse.org.ntnu.no
    place: NTNU

places:
  - name: UiT
    lat: 69.6798
    lon: 18.9710
  - name: Aalto
    lat: 60.178511
    lon: 24.833543
  - name: NTNU
    lat: 63.415865
    lon: 10.406666

Required fields

The only required fields are name and place (either lat and lon, or place).

How to specify your location

You can either specify your coordinates explictly:

persons:
  - name: John Doe
    lat: 63.415865
    lon: 10.406666

Alternatively you can use a placeholder:

persons:
  - name: John Doe
    place: NTNU

places:
  - name: NTNU
    lat: 63.415865
    lon: 10.406666

Optional fields

The fields homepage, email, twitter, github, gitlab, skills, and num_members (only relevant for groups) are optional. If you provide an email address, please place it between quotes.

persons:
  - name: Radovan Bast
    homepage: https://bast.fr
    email: '[email protected]'
    twitter: __radovan
    github: bast
    gitlab: bast
    place: UiT
    skills: ['Python', 'Git', 'JavaScript', 'CMake', 'Rust', 'Fortran']

You don't have to provide them if you prefer not to or if not relevant.

Number of group members

Groups can optionally specify the number of members by setting num_members:

groups:
  - name: "My RSE group"
    num_members: 15
    place: Oslo

Skills

Persons can optionally list their skills if they want to be better discoverable for projects and collaborations based on specific skills:

persons:
  - name: John Doe
    lat: 55.715043
    lon: 13.212401
    skills: ['Python', 'Git', 'JavaScript', 'CMake', 'Rust', 'Fortran']