Glad you like it ! The database is about 20GB. All details about the import are on the readme : https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards

Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out.

There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.

The name still breaks the naming section of GitHub's terms. It doesn't matter if you put a disclaimer on it.

Naming projects and products

Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names.

Edit: Also the background breaks this:

Please don’t do these things

Create a modified version of the Octocat or GitHub logo

>i'll make that a lot more visible. //

Appears below the fold in what looks like 9pt* for me; I take it the visibility hasn't been improved yet.

* checked, it's 10px vs 18px attribution line.

No i havent updated it yet.

FWIW

>I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards,

Which is the start of one of your other comments is also pretty deceptive. You are the "author of github-awards.com a site that is not affialiated with GitHub"; "author of GitHub Awards" gives entirely the opposite suggestion.

Maybe change domain to xxxxxx-awards.com :)

I added in the footer a small note explaining that this project is not related to the GitHub company, do you think i should make that more visible ?

What is your GitHub username ?

GitHub Archive data are not perfect, and there are also room for improvements in the import process.

The stars are also inaccurate for me.

Username: nathanpeck

You are reporting 115 stars for JS, when I actually have 700+

Another thing to factor in to make this more accurate is to detect if repos are in a package system like bower or npm.

If so then factor in the downloads for those packages. For example one of my repos only has 100 stars, but gets nearly 10,000 downloads a month on NPM. Another has 600+ stars but only gets around 100-200 downloads a month.

'tis but a google away: https://github.com/leehambley The 6700 star repo he's talking about is capistrano/capistrano.

I asssume stars only apply for personal projects? Spin it off, lose your ranking. :)

The stars information comes from GitHub Archive : https://www.githubarchive.org/

There are some limitations, for example it doesn't include events before 2011

The concept of "star" has also changed several times (they are still called watchers in the API)

Hi,

I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask

It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK:

http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin

https://github.com/kylecronin

Same here. I'm from Italy, but reported from Madagascar :)

https://github.com/amadvance http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=amadvance

Same for me: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=Azdle

Tells me I'm in Houston, actually in Minneapolis.

Same I'm in Rhode Island not Irvine

http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=mpiannucci

Also, it looks like the cities w/ the same name in different countries are treated as one city.

I am in Santa Fe, NM but ranked with people in Santa Fe, Argentina.

What are you using to parse and resolve location? There doesn't seem to be a suggested format for a github profile and myself, like many other people in the US just put in a State abbreviation or City name which has DC in Van, Turkey.

I'm using Google Geocoding API untill i reached the rate limit (2.5k calls / day) and Openstreetmap API for the rest

>The Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited. For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/

I wanted to use this API for a simple app of mine too but in the end didn't because of this. Used Mapquest instead, which seems good too.

It won't recognize my city from my profile even after I added it (other developers for my city show up, though). Are the results cached? Is there any way to refresh the cache?

I don't think it's updated in realtime, is it?

OK, got it. It's missing a significant amount of data because of GitHub-Archive.

https://github.com/igrigorik/githubarchive.org/issues/30

Most of my co-worker using Vim as their primary editor happens to be really good at their job. (Of course I wouldn't say that using Vim 'means' you're a good developers!)

Lots of very well summarized stuff. But web development has changed so much since 2002 !

While all of these subjects are still relevant : debug, log, memory, unit test, etc. I think nowaday a beginner will rapidly face broader problems in his career :

.Deployment / monitoring / Devops / Cloud

.Frontend VS Backend development

.Mobile development

All these subjects were a lot more isolated 13 years ago.

What he calls "heavy tools" like database, Full text search, they have all become a lot more common today. I wouldn't be surprised that a young developer will have to experience 2 or 3 different databases the first years he starts working (SQL / redis / mongo, etc)

Maybe it's me but i don't feel confident giving my credit card after reading the home page. After reading the whole page i understand the business but my first impression was really somewhere between "is this a joke ? / they are stealing credit card numbers"

Maybe the very cheap design discredit the whole project.