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Dave and I discussed the idea of integrating some components of the new website with GitHub.

I made some progress on this, trying to pull user images based on an html5 data attribute for each "Our Team" entry.

However, I'm discovering that the unauthenticated API limit for Github is only 60 requests per hour, which means using a JS based API interaction could be problematic. You get a higher limit with authenticated requests, but I don't think it's secure to add those credentials into the JS code (I may be wrong about this).

So... does anybody have any ideas of how we can interact with the GitHub API on a static-style site (like Github pages), while avoiding the issues with the API limit.

One solution I thought of was to use a CDN like Amazon CloudFront to serve as a cache for those requests.