Repository guidelines

These conventions apply to future changes throughout this repository.

Copy style

  • Do not use em dashes in website copy or generated presentation styles.
  • Rewrite affected sentences using commas, colons, semicolons, parentheses, or sentence breaks instead.

Team photos

  • Keep the original image for every team member in images/teampic/.
  • Create a separate web-optimized copy under images/teampic/optimized/.
  • Every team photo loaded by the website must be no larger than 300 KB.
  • Member records should reference the optimized copy, never the original.
  • Do not delete, replace, or overwrite original photos when optimizing them.

Membership records

  • Current members and alumni are mutually exclusive: a person must appear in only one of those two lists, according to their current status.
  • List alumni in reverse chronological order, with the most recent former team members first.
  • The intern list is a historical record and should remain intact.
  • Do not deduplicate the intern list against current members or alumni. A former intern may also appear as either a current member or an alumnus.
  • When a current member becomes an alumnus, move their record from the current-member list to the alumni list, but preserve any historical intern entry.

Research highlights and news

  • Keep highlighted publications in reverse chronological order by their first public arXiv submission date, not by the numerical order of their arXiv identifiers.
  • Verify conference venues, presentation types, and awards against official conference records or dated author/project announcements.
  • Add award news separately, but do not duplicate an existing general conference-attendance item.