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Have been using Github for a community radio station, have been encouraging all staffers to use github accounts to file issues against our private repos, etc. T

Have been using Github for a community radio station, have been encouraging all staffers to use github accounts to file issues against our private repos, etc. The friendly policies for many collaborators have made this attractive, even though most users have rarely interacted with the repos, if at all. Now each user for the private repo has a significant cost (pretty significant for a non-profit community radio station); looks like we'll have to rethink this whole Github thing.

moby 10y ago
Certainly appreciate your question around pricing for non-profits here - have you applied for non-profit status through GitHub? We do have discounts to support eligible non-profit organizations, and you can request the discount at https://github.com/nonprofit https://github.com/nonprofit. Feel free to reach out to Support (https://github.com/c https://github.com/c) if you have any further questions around this!
- rplnt 10y ago
  I don't think there is a question in that post. Also there's "non-profit" (business) and "non-profit" (hobby).
- wbillingsley 10y ago
  Out of interest, why do you require charities to have no religious affiliation at all? Perhaps there's some US tax or legal aspect to it? At at first glance from overseas, it seems oddly churlish and monoculturalist (dare I say "fearful of the prayerful") to disallow community groups and charities where actually yes their beliefs did prompt them to step out in service, and they are not ashamed of that. I can't imagine it's a big part of your revenue base, and I wonder if there's more people like me who casually read it and quietly think "ooh, that's a bit inward-looking and snarky -- and goodness they put it on the page twice to make sure" than groups who are actually affected by it. Suddenly those cheery octocats under "We love people who are changing the world" seem just that bit more limited and exclusionary. If I was in a satirical and provocative mood, I might ask, are they holding hands in togetherness, or to keep the undesirables out?
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  - ogsharkman 10y ago
    I never noticed that before.. I like the "nonpolitical" one as well, pretty vague in my opinion.
  - nosefrog 10y ago
    Excluding religious groups from special nonprofit deals is pretty normal in the US. For example, my employer does donation matching for non-religious nonprofits. You're reading a lot more into it than you probably should.
xfalcox 10y ago
Did you evaluate Discourse for your use case? You can self host it cheaply on a small vps, and it's great for non dev issues discussion.
robalfonso 10y ago
Similar situation here, have a whole segment of our organization that is non-developer but they file issues. I'm not paying for all of them just to submit issues. We also have bot users that I'm not willing to spend good money on maintaining. They need to think about a lite user of some kind for this use case.

moby 10y ago

Certainly appreciate your question around pricing for non-profits here - have you applied for non-profit status through GitHub? We do have discounts to support eligible non-profit organizations, and you can request the discount at https://github.com/nonprofit https://github.com/nonprofit. Feel free to reach out to Support (https://github.com/c https://github.com/c) if you have any further questions around this!

rplnt 10y ago
I don't think there is a question in that post. Also there's "non-profit" (business) and "non-profit" (hobby).
wbillingsley 10y ago
Out of interest, why do you require charities to have no religious affiliation at all? Perhaps there's some US tax or legal aspect to it? At at first glance from overseas, it seems oddly churlish and monoculturalist (dare I say "fearful of the prayerful") to disallow community groups and charities where actually yes their beliefs did prompt them to step out in service, and they are not ashamed of that. I can't imagine it's a big part of your revenue base, and I wonder if there's more people like me who casually read it and quietly think "ooh, that's a bit inward-looking and snarky -- and goodness they put it on the page twice to make sure" than groups who are actually affected by it. Suddenly those cheery octocats under "We love people who are changing the world" seem just that bit more limited and exclusionary. If I was in a satirical and provocative mood, I might ask, are they holding hands in togetherness, or to keep the undesirables out?
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- ogsharkman 10y ago
  I never noticed that before.. I like the "nonpolitical" one as well, pretty vague in my opinion.
- nosefrog 10y ago
  Excluding religious groups from special nonprofit deals is pretty normal in the US. For example, my employer does donation matching for non-religious nonprofits. You're reading a lot more into it than you probably should.

xfalcox 10y ago

Did you evaluate Discourse for your use case? You can self host it cheaply on a small vps, and it's great for non dev issues discussion.

robalfonso 10y ago

Similar situation here, have a whole segment of our organization that is non-developer but they file issues. I'm not paying for all of them just to submit issues. We also have bot users that I'm not willing to spend good money on maintaining. They need to think about a lite user of some kind for this use case.