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Request an educational account at github
- EzGraphs 14y agoThat is a great offering. It is an excellent idea to have students using standard "best practices" for their software projects, and will help teachers organize the review of these assignments. Thank you github.
- davidradcliffe 14y agoAwesome! Wish I had this opportunity when I was in school.
- Void_ 14y agoThat's very nice. But I have 54 private repos on my VPS. I think about something, start writing some code, and I need a repo. Public GitHub repo would work too, but I don't want to have experiments all over my GitHub page. So yeah, this is nice, but not for me...
- Argorak 14y agoIf you just want many repos without issue tracking ect. and githubs pricings structure doesn't please you, you can use codeplane: https://codeplane.com/ https://codeplane.com/
- flixic 14y agoOr just use BitBucket.
- EzGraphs 14y agoHmmm - fair enough... besides free public and private repos they appear to have an educational plan as well. http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-license.jsp http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-l...
- colkassad 14y agoJust curious, I can get 5 free private repositories under a micro plan as a student. What benefit does this have over bitbucket, which has unlimited private repositories? This is an honest question, I don't know that much about github.
- flixic 14y agoBetter interface, plenty of open-source communities around (seems like everyone uses GitHub to publish their open source projects) and niceties, like project page hosting. I use both: BitBucket for unlimited private repos, and GitHub for public, open source.
- manojlds 14y agoWhen someone wants to use private repositories, what does it matter that Github has good communities around? BitBucket, IMO is great for private hosting. But for my open source projects, I don't look beyond GitHub.
- Volscio 14y ago"Due to high demand, we've run out of student accounts. Don't worry, we'll have more soon. Please check back later." So, you can add an email addy under your profile settings. But does this mean you can request an educational account if your main account is a private email addy?
- tathagatadg 14y agoI requested last year for an educational account ... but it never got approved. For two courses this semester I was able to manage with gh-pages [shameless advert: http://tathagata.github.com/pwndeals http://tathagata.github.com/pwndeals and http://tathagata.github.com/finmotion http://tathagata.github.com/finmotion ], but the database course, I really wish I was able to use git ... but too big for the free membership. Also, for some assignments Professors wont like the idea that you make your code public - simply to prevent cheating and that they want to reuse assignments. Being able to have private repos really make sense in those situation.
- Heliosmaster 14y agofor exactly the same reason I applied this fall and got approved quickly. Strange that you didn't.
- tathagatadg 14y agoTime to re-apply ...
- johnnyo 14y agoI've done for my masters program. I generally leave the repo private during the course of the semester when I work on projects, then I make it public afterwards. I figure it could be good showcase of work I've done for future employers, etc Professors know its there (because I include links my my final reports) and so far, none of them have asked me to take it down or block access. We will see in the future.
- nreece 14y agoAssembla offers free private repos: http://www.assembla.com/plans http://www.assembla.com/plans
- alpb 14y agoI'm using this for 2 years and it is pretty good. Then I bought a Small ($12 plan), now I'm $7.00 off each month and paying $5 monthly. But it seems I'm approaching to the end of the 2 year period so I'll be moving some of my private projects to BitBucket. That's sad.
- jurre 14y agoI have this and it's pretty awesome. I have to explain what git is to my professors every time I tell them I won't be using SVN though..
- AznHisoka 14y agoMicro plan ran out =(
- FireBeyond 14y agoAlready "expired" due to high demand....
- sudonim 14y agoThis is just a general comment based on some of the (strange) sentiment below. Github is a for-profit company. As a student, they're offering you a break to make it easier to use their service. They do this because they ultimately want you to pay them (or host great open source projects with them). If you're not a student and derive value from their service, pay them. It's $10s of dollars per month (for private repo hosting). If you value your code, I'd encourage you to go with (and pay) a service whose primary business is hosting it for you. That's github. Your money is going to pay people (like you) who make a living writing code.
- tomjen3 14y agoAlternatively you can get a completely free account at bitbucket. They started out with mercurial support, but they do git too, these days.
- prezjordan 14y agoI got one last year, note that all the limits are soft limits. It's strange, but true.