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Wow, thanks! As a student who runs his own SaaS, this is incredibly valuable! I was able to immediately add the $1000 credit to my Stripe account, which I already use to process all my payments. Now I'm just looking for ways to best utilize the rest of the services. Big thanks to GitHub and all involved companies for creating a wonderful bundle for students.
Nevertheless kudos for an awesome bundle!
Awesome service guys. The following criticism is not for github, but for our culture as a whole. I cannot get myself to agree with how our culture has come to describe a 'student'. An example would be the following: "If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identif…
> So I need to pay money to a big institution to be considered a student? Many 'students' would probably be in a better financial situation than a non-'student' who is trying to learn. This points out sort of the paradox we have here...it's argued that you should just "learn to code," but then they're requiring here that in order to do this you need to be part of some larger engine of learning that my or may not have…
Many school/colleges outside NA/Europe (eg: even topmost science/engineering colleges in India) don't necessarily provide an institutional .edu email ID but you can still verify using college/library ID cards and say semester exams marksheet or such. So is this pack available for such students? Nevertheless kudos for an awesome bundle!
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All CA's require a bundle, just an FYI. Comodo has two because they have the structure like this: => Old Root (with trust everywhere) ==> New Root (with limited trust) ===> Issuing Intermediary ====> Your Cert (no trust without intermediary)
I think you are right, they all might have at least 1 Intermediate CA cert... But with the basic certs it's 1 or 2 levels deeper, and the bundle file is not provided ready-to-go after the purchase. I remember some years back you could either use a single-root cert (with just your SSLCertificateFile file), or with 1 Intermediate CA that you would just use as the SSLCertificateChainFile file.
COMODO provides all the files in the ZIP sent to you via email. Don't know about others.
Awesome service guys. The following criticism is not for github, but for our culture as a whole. I cannot get myself to agree with how our culture has come to describe a 'student'. An example would be the following: "If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identif…
If you really want to 'abuse' student status, you can enroll in night classes somewhere and normally you can claim a free .edu or .ac.uk (or whatever) account. Ultimately there must be a differentiator so that not everyone can sign up and bankrupt the generous companies offering the discounts.
This is going to be helpful to many students, but... But the constraints imposed by not being able to pay for third-party services during my years as a student have been the main motivator behind tinkering with setting up my own services and finding (FLOSS) alternative solutions to the well-known applications the grown ups were using. I think one has to "suffer" through all the required stages in order to grok all th…
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> So I need to pay money to a big institution to be considered a student? In the US, I guess you do. Here in Finland, all uni/polytechnic/what-have-you students get a school-issued email address and student identification card, and tuition is free. So I guess your criticism is for the US culture? :)
I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. Your education is not free, some may even argue it is more expensive than the US system. Myself included. You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education. You pay for it regardless if you decide to attend university or not. Letting the 'rich' pay for it is not an economic solution either. Hence the outrage in the US of moving toward the Euro…
It can stand to improve, but I see nothing wrong with the idea. You still have to pay taxes anyway, why not spend them on the common good?