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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by kristiandupont »

ssivark wrote: post #2

Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis? I wonder how many people would pay a…

This is something that is on my radar. I am making a "SAAS admin" system for businesses but during my market research, a few people have told me that they would like something like it for themselves as well.

I am just not sure what would be a good solution. I could scan your email for known entities or through a browser extension take a look at which sites you go to. Both would be much more problematic in terms of privacy than I would be comfortable with.

I suppose another model would be to only keep track of stuff that you manually enter but I doubt that would add enough value for anyone to care?

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by jna_sh »

hmart wrote: post #16

Teachers qualify too?

Teachers don’t qualify, but GitHub Education offer teachers GitHub Pro for their personal account, and GitHub Teams for organisations they use to teach their students. More here: https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with...

Disclaimer: ex-GitHub, used to work on the education program

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by hmart »

jna_sh wrote: post #17
hmart wrote: post #16

Teachers qualify too?

Teachers don’t qualify, but GitHub Education offer teachers GitHub Pro for their personal account, and GitHub Teams for organisations they use to teach their students. More here: https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with... Disclaimer: ex-GitHub, used to work on the education program

Thank you

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

chrisseaton wrote: post #13
duxup wrote: post #6

I wish there was a way to extend this kind of thing to non traditional students.

Not sure what you mean? Non-traditional students are eligible like anyone else.

Well, I download free books on specific topics, get academic papers, and work out how things work to further my art and science.

In some ways, I've furthered my areas of study and documented them for the world, with a similarity to masters candidates would.

What I've given up on is the "Education System". Classes are too slow - I'll find interesting avenues during learning something, and deep dive and see interconnections with many other areas. I've gotten nothing like this in ANY classroom setting. Traditional class focus only on the grade vs actually learning the material. This might be different in grad school, but never got there. And cost way too much. 2hr/week for 16 weeks at $60/hr is $1920 . Yet, how much is tuition for that class again? Yeah. (Lest to say, the profs themselves get paid less. Whole diff can of worms there too.)

I'm definitely a 'Non-traditional student'. But lets cut the bullshit. It's coded language for "getting a university degree much older than you should have"... Do I get the benefits of 'non-traditional student'? Hah, nope. The base requirement is always some @.edu .

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