Markdown tables to csv(s) ?

[JulienParis]

Just a proposal here =>

Who would be interested in "migrating" the lists from the README.md to one or several csv file(s) ?

As I'm writing this proposal I'd see the following pros and cons for this idea :

• pros for a csv file :
  • better format for reuses ;
  • easier to share as a file ;
  • better format if the lists begins to contain more than dozen lines. A md file containing hundred-lines-long table a might be not very user-friendly.
• cons against a csv file (keep the lists on the REAME) :
  • the README is directly shown on the repo ;
  • perhaps trickier to constribute to a csv (no commas in cells)
• neither pro nor con / maintenance :
  • to avoid confusion and to avoid entering twice the values, if one or several csv file compile all coops the README should not include the lists... so the README would be more like a summary than containing the data itself... The risk here - if done without coordination - is that also would have some impacts on @hng 's website, and that would be a shame given the amount of effort he's put into this !

Note :

I'm proposing the csv approach because in France there's a quite structured initiative called CoopTech, and we're about to make a relatively large registry of (tech) coops. This census might contains more than a hundred (hundreds perhaps) entries.

What do you think about this idea ?

[hng]

Thanks for the write up! I'd have to thing this one a bit. Creating the website was already one step to having a bit more possibilities than with the GitHub markdown view.

Indeed an addition of more than 100 entries from just one country would make the list as it is now less useful (but that's also the case if it grows in general).

I think the main question would be if and how well we still want/need to support people that read the list through GitHub.

[carlos-reynosa]

I had suggested this in another discussion:

#80 (comment)