Guess GitHub username of leaders

[jayvdb]

Link to the GitHub user for the leaders, ensuring that only highly probable links are made.

At least confirm that a username is a member of the relevant GitHub organisation before linking to it.

This is a repeatable GCI task.

Use "Related to https://github.com/coala/gci-leaders/issues/8" at the bottom of your commit message, so it doesnt close this issue.

[jayvdb]

Blocked on #7

[andrewda]

Most GCI students are private members of the org (at least for coala) so this might be near impossible...

Edit: I did a manual check and if we're searching the organization for the user's name, currently the only person it will work for is me. Everyone else is private or not in the company's organization.

[jayvdb]

It is high difficulty, but I can assure you it is very possible to do this.

[invisible-defects]

We can search user by name & surname, GitHub user search has such option.
In case we don't find someone, we can try to guess by training seq2seq model on username : real name pairs we've found so far. We know our guess is right if user has coala org in his profile, which is AFAIK visible for other users. Though it definitely won't work for participants, whose nicknames don't have any associations with their real names (e.g. me)

[jayvdb]

This was a repeatable task.