GitHub CM

This project highlights the usage of GitHub in Cameroon. It is based on the CodeAfrica initiative and it's updated and deployed to the Silicon Mountain site. Using GitHub's API it searches for users who have Cameroon or a Cameroonian city listed on their profile. This is an imperfect method but it shows the usage of GitHub in Cameroon. We feel that this provides a good proxy about where opensource and modern software practices is growing in Cameroon.

These scripts will generate github-cm list. We use this to generate a Map with MapBox and deployed to Silicon Mountain site

Feel free to check out the license, and make contributions through pull requests.

Build Instructions

Prerequisites

Install pip, python, mapbox-studio on your Linux/Mac OS distro

$ dnf install python pip | apt-get install python pip | brew install python pip

Build

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Create virtualenv and install pip.

$ pip install -r requirements.pip

• Create secret.py based on your GitHub details.
• Edit secret.py with a clientID and secretID from your github profile/auth page
• Add your username and password (in clear) to secret.py

$ ./auth.py

export the GITHUB_TOKEN as suggested. remove secret.py

• Run the following python scripts.

$ ./step1_search_by_location.py && ./step2_cleanup_users.py && ./step3_extend_users.py && ./step4_cleanup_dates.py && ./step5_export_for_map.py

This generates the github-users.csv

Render output as markdown

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Install Node.js and Node Package Manager

$ sudo apt install nodejs
$ sudo apt install npm

Sort the JSON file

Modify sortJSON and change the sort parameter if necessary

	var dataFile = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('step4.json'));
	....

	dataFile = sortUsersBy('repos', dataFile);
	fs.appendFileSync('sortedUserData.json', JSON.stringify(dataFile));

repos can be modified to any key that exit in the JSON file.
datafile string object that holds the formated data.

Run node sortJSON to produce a sorted JSON file using repos as key.
The output JSON file sortedUserData.json, can then be formated with any JSON formatter

Build a markdown from sortedUserData.json

The parameters in the BuildProfileUsingData() function can be modified eg.

	const userDataObject = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('sortedUserData.json').toString());
	...

	function BuildProfileUsingData(index, username, fullname, repos, location, followers, avatar) {...}

index auto counter
username a key in the JSON file (eg userDataObject[index].username)
fullname, repos ... keys in JSON file

Run node JSONParser. This outputs the file users.md

License

github-cm is licensed under The Apache-2 License.