Contact members for better headshots

[vincerubinetti]

The new team page shows peoples' faces up-close and personal. Some of these photos are quite low resolution and could use a newer shot. Here is my flagging of problematic ones. Perhaps the alums are not as critical.

Issues

• Matthew Brush (res)
• Shahim Essaid (res, lighting)
• Bryan Laraway (res)
• Seth Carbon (res, lighting)
• Sierra Taylor Moxon (res)
• Justin Reese (res)
• Sebastian Köhler (circle crop, res)

Improvable

• Melissa Haendel (res)
• Faisal Alquaddoomi (res, bg)
• Bryan Laraway (res)
• Peter Robinson (res)
• Hannah Blau (res slightly, cropping too tight)
• Chris Mungall (letterbox)
• Nomi Harris (res slightly)
• Damian Smedley (res slightly)
• Nicolas Matentzoglu (res, lighting)
• Kent Lloyd (res)
• Matthew Wheeler (res)
• Jason Williams (photo vs drawing?)

Missing

• Trish Whetzel
• Katherina Cortes
• Harshad Hegde
• Mark Miller
• Patrick Kalita
• Ben Coleman
• Daniel Danis
• Lauren Rekerle
• Martha Beckwith
• Anita Reane Caron
• Arwa Ibrahim
• James McLaughlin
• Ray Stefancsik
• Vinicius de Souza
• Carlo Kroll
• Valentina Cipriani
• Yasemin Bridges
• Ada Hamosh
• Chris Chute
• Joseph E Flack
• Nicole Vasilevsky

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Guidelines for good photo

• High res, at least 300x300 (natively, non-upscaled).
• Square, tight crop (but without cutting off face).
• Face mostly centered.
• Well-lit, good contrast.
• Minimal background distraction. Depth-of-field blur on background ideal.

Ideal examples (photos as of writing):

• Tim Putman
• Sarah Gehrke
• Sabrina Toro
• Kevin Schaper
• Glass Elsarboukh

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Other related tasks (make new issue?)

• Check that all members' group affiliation and alum status are up to date.
• Check that all members have a website/linkedin/whatever link, as appropriate.
• Check that all members' listed roles are accurate.
• Check that everyone is OK with their pictures, as some of them were pulled from Slack, GitHub avatar, etc. Perhaps some are quite old and should be replaced with a newer one.
• Check that all photos are about less than 1000x1000 and 150kb (jpg), roughly, to save the user some bandwidth (even though photos are only loaded when they come into view).
• Do rough color/contrast/brightness equalization across all photos, either by eye or automatically with photoshop? Very low priority, they're all okay at the moment.

[glass-ships]

@putmantime / @sagehrke I'm noticing a lot of links (particularly for alumni) are out of date or lead to 404's.

Two (maybe three) part question:

• should I be including alumni in this email?
• what should I do for team members (current or alum) for whom I can't find an email address?
• would be acceptable / in poor taste to google some members to get updated links / emails for contact?

[sagehrke]

Related to #399