create generation of README based on JSON data of people

people.json

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+{
+	"people": [
+		{
+			"name": "Frédéric Harper",
+			"title": "Director of Developer Relations",
+			"company": "Mindee",
+			"city": "Montréal",
+			"country": "Canada",
+			"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericharper",
+			"twitter": "https://twitter.com/fharper",
+			"scheduling": "https://calendly.com/fharper/coffee",
+			"online-only": false,
+			"topics": ["Open-Source", "SaaS Architecture", "Developer Relations", "Developers Documentation", "Community Building", "Personal Branding", "Starting in Tech", "Job Search", "Cats", "Coffee", "Microbrewery Beer", "Travelling", "Mental Health", "Anything else"]
+		}
+	]
+}

scripts/README-TEMPLATE.md

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+# Coffee Chat
+
+List of awesome people offering their time **for free** to have a "coffee chat" with others about different topics, mostly in a mentorship kind of way.
+
+PLACEHOLDER
+
+## Add yourself to this list
+
+To add your name to this list, you simply need to add another person object in [people.json](people.json). You can simply copy someone else, and change the information. If you don't want to share a piece of information, just leave the value of the field empty. Once done, please do a pull request. If you have no idea how all this works, you can simply send me your information by [email](mailto:hi@fred.dev), and I'll add you to the list myself with pleasure.
+
+⚠️ **Warning**: only add yourself to this list!
+
+## Remove yourself from this list
+
+Simply create a pull request by removing your people definition from [people.json](people.json). As for adding yourself to the list if you are not a technical person, just send me an [email](mailto:hi@fred.dev) and I'll do it for you.
+
+## Future plans
+
+I put this up quickly, and don't have more time this week to finalize what I had in mind, so here's some things left to do.
+
+- Generate a second list by location (when we'll have more people)
+- Generate a third list by discussion topics (when we'll have more people)
+- Add GitHub Action for JSON linting
+- Add GitHub Action for automatic README generation
+- Add GitHub Action for links validation
+- Create pull request template
+- Create a CONTRIBUTION.md
+- Better formatting of the list including city & country (suggestions welcome here).

scripts/write-readme.js

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+'use strict;'
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+//Get the data
+const data = fs.readFileSync('../people.json');
+const json = JSON.parse(data);
+
+//Order by name
+json.people.sort(function (a, b) {
+    return a.name.localeCompare(b.name);
+});
+
+//Generate with proper formating
+const peopleList = json.people.map(people =>
+	`- **[${people.name}](${people.scheduling}) (${(people.linkedin ? "[LinkedIn](" + people.linkedin + "), " : "")}${(people.twitter ? "[Twitter](" + people.twitter + ")" : "")}), ${people.title} at ${people.company}:** ${people.topics.join(', ')})`
+).join('\r\n');
+
+//Write README.md
+const template = fs.readFileSync('README-TEMPLATE.md', 'utf8');
+fs.writeFileSync('../README.md', template.replace('PLACEHOLDER', peopleList));