Issue #1696: Add mentors to metadata, generate mentor list automatically (#1700)

* Automatically add mentors from project proposal pages to the mentors summary page

* Automatically add mentors from project proposal pages to the mentors summary page

* Convert name into first_name and last_name to fix the wrong splitting names

* Small fixes:

- only generate mentor section in proposals from 2025 onwards. old
  projects do not have the metadata.
- add is_preferred_contact that just prints the mentor in bold
- change mentor.role to mentor.additional_information for more
  flexibility

* mybinder.org can be down, exclude from linkcheck

---------

Co-authored-by: Valentin Volkl <[email protected]>

Author: MohanadKh03

.github/config/mdcheck.json

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 {
   "ignorePatterns": [
+    {
+      "pattern": "https://mybinder.org"
+    },
     {
       "pattern": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii*"
     },

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_ATLAS_lossy_compression.md

@@ -3,12 +3,22 @@ title: Precision Recovery in Lossy-Compressed Floating Point Data for High Energ
 layout: gsoc_proposal
 project: ATLAS
 year: 2025
-organization: 
- - ANL
- - CERN
+organization:
+  - ANL
+  - CERN
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 350
 mentor_avail: July-September
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    organization: ANL
+    first_name: Maciej
+    last_name: Szymański
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Peter
+    last_name: Van Gemmeren
+    organization: CERN
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -30,11 +40,6 @@ mentor_avail: July-September
 
  * C++, Python, Machine Learning
 
-## Mentors
-
-  * **[Maciej Szymański](mailto:[email protected])**
-  * [Peter Van Gemmeren](mailto:[email protected])
-
 ## Links
 
  * [IEEE_754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_BALER.md

@@ -9,7 +9,20 @@ organization:
   - CERN
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 350
-mentor_avail: June-August 
+mentor_avail: June-August
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: James
+    last_name: Smith
+    organization: UManchester
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Caterina
+    last_name: Doglioni
+    organization: CERN
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Leonid
+    last_name: Didukh
 ---
 ​
 ## Short description of the project
@@ -47,12 +60,6 @@ The candidate should have experience with the python language and a Linux enviro
 
 Desirable skills include familiarity with AI fundamentals including transformers and/or graph neural networks, particle physics theory and experiments, PyTorch, FPGA programming and/or simulation.
 
-
-## Mentors
-   * ***[James Smith](mailto:[email protected])***
-   * [Caterina Doglioni](mailto:[email protected]) as backup mentor
-   * [Leonid Didukh](mailto:[email protected])
-
 ## Links
 
   * [BALER GitHub](https://github.com/baler-collaboration/baler)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_Baler-ProbabilisticCircuit.md

@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ organization:
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October (with 3 weeks mentor vacation where student will work independently with minimal guidance)
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Leonid
+    last_name: Didukh
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Caterina
+    last_name: Doglioni
+    organization: CERN
 ---
 ​
 ## Short description of the project
@@ -33,10 +42,6 @@ An improved compression performance with documentation and figures of merit that
 
 Required: Good knowledge of UNIX, Python, matplotlib, Pytorch, Julia, Pandas, ROOT. 
 
-## Mentors
-   * ***[Leonid Didukh](mailto:[email protected])***
-   * [Caterina Doglioni](mailto:[email protected]) as backup mentor
-
 ## Links
 
 * Previous work:

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_BioDynamo-CART.md

@@ -6,9 +6,18 @@ year: 2025
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October
-organization: 
+organization:
   - CERN
   - CompRes
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Vassil
+    last_name: Vassilev
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Lukas
+    last_name: Breitwieser
+    organization: CERN
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -41,10 +50,6 @@ The final deliverable will be a fully documented, reproducible BioDynaMo simulat
 * Basic immunology & cancer biology (optional but helpful)
 * Data visualization (Python, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
 
-## Mentors
-* [Vassil Vassilev](mailto:[email protected])
-* [Lukas Breitwieser](mailto:[email protected])
-
 ## Links
 * [Mapping CAR T-Cell Design Space Using Agent-Based Models](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2022.849363/full)
 * [BioDynaMo: A Modular Platform for High-Performance Agent-Based Simulation](https://cds.cern.ch/record/2800211?ln=en)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_CLUEsteringAutotuning.md

@@ -1,12 +1,22 @@
 ---
 title: Development of an auto-tuning tool for the CLUEstering library
 layout: gsoc_proposal
-project: Patatrack 
+project: Patatrack
 year: 2025
 organization: CERN
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    organization: CERN UNIBO
+    first_name: Simone
+    last_name: Balducci
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    organization: CERN
+    first_name: Felice
+    last_name: Pantaleo
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -46,10 +56,6 @@ Interested students please contact [email protected]
 * Experience with development of Python libraries
 
 
-## Mentors
-  * **[Simone Balducci](mailto:[email protected]) (CERN UNIBO)**
-  * [Felice Pantaleo](mailto:[email protected]) (CERN)
-
 ## Links
   * [CLUE][clue]
   * [CLUEstering][cluestering]

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_CVMFS_DistributeModelFiles.md

@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ organization:
 difficulty: medium
 duration: 175
 mentor_avail: June-October
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Valentin
+    last_name: Volkl
+    organization: CERN
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Lorenzo
+    last_name: Moneta
+    organization: CERN
 ---
 
 # Description
@@ -49,10 +59,6 @@ In this project proposal, we'd like to evaluate CVMFS as a means to distribute m
  * Familiarity with common ML libraries, in particular ONNX
 
 
-## Mentors
-
- * **[Valentin Volkl](mailto:[email protected])**
- * [Lorenzo Moneta](mailto:[email protected])
 
 
 ## Links

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_Clad-ImproveTape.md

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October
 organization:
   - CompRes
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Vassil
+    last_name: Vassilev
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: David
+    last_name: Lange
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -35,9 +43,5 @@ This project aims to improve the efficiency of the clad tape and generalize it i
 * C++ programming
 * Clang frontend
 
-## Mentors
-* **[Vassil Vassilev](mailto:[email protected])**
-* [David Lange](mailto:[email protected])
-
 ## Links
 * [Repo](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_Clad-LLM.md

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 title: Enhancing LLM Training with Clad for efficient differentiation
-
 layout: gsoc_proposal
 project: Clad
 year: 2025
@@ -9,6 +8,14 @@ duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October
 organization:
   - CompRes
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Vassil
+    last_name: Vassilev
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: David
+    last_name: Lange
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -36,9 +43,6 @@ Beyond performance improvements, integrating Clad with LLM training in C++ opens
 * Reasonable expertise in C++ programming
 * Background in LLM  is preferred but not required
 
-## Mentors
-* **[Vassil Vassilev](mailto:[email protected])**
-* [David Lange](mailto:[email protected])
 
 ## Links
 * [Repo](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_Clad-ONNX.md

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ duration: 350
 mentor_avail: June-October
 organization:
   - CompRes
+project_mentors:
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: Vassil
+    last_name: Vassilev
+    is_preferred_contact: yes
+  - email: [email protected]
+    first_name: David
+    last_name: Lange
 ---
 
 ## Description
@@ -35,9 +43,5 @@ This project aims to integrate Clad, an automatic differentiation (AD) plugin fo
 * Reasonable expertise in C++ programming
 * Basic knowledge of Clang is preferred but not mandatory
 
-## Mentors
-* **[Vassil Vassilev](mailto:[email protected])**
-* [David Lange](mailto:[email protected])
-
 ## Links
 * [Repo](https://github.com/vgvassilev/clad)