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Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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It is only free for one year. if you need free private repositories, you should stick to bitbucket

+1 for Bitbucket, unless you want to deal with the hassle of moving over from github to bitbucket when you no longer qualify as a student.

Or... you can pay $7/mo, given that as a nom-student you can probably afford that much? :P

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

What kind of organization account do teachers get?

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

I'm a student. I've filled it out at least three times in the past and never gotten anything.

Me too. Are you from outside the US? That might be it, as my university does not use a .edu.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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I'm a student. I've filled it out at least three times in the past and never gotten anything.

Me too. Are you from outside the US? That might be it, as my university does not use a .edu.

I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get a response. Maybe the emails went to your spam. Email support@github.com and I'll get you sorted out.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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We offer free Bronze Organization plans to nonprofits with proof of status. https://github.com/nonprofit

Is there any opportunity for non-US non-profit associations? That "501(c)(3) status" seems blocking.

Yes, please send a request via http://github.com/nonprofit

You'll need proof of non-profit status from your jurisdiction.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

I wanted to let you know that your email validation is broken. my real university email address does not pass validation.

this is the how the email address looks like:

someusername@mail.huji.ac.il

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

TIL BitBucket is run by Atlassian (i.e. the JIRA people).

Links to save you time, if you're interested:

https://bitbucket.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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+1 for Bitbucket, unless you want to deal with the hassle of moving over from github to bitbucket when you no longer qualify as a student.

Or... you can pay $7/mo, given that as a nom-student you can probably afford that much? :P

Why pay for something that you can get easily for free from a competitor?

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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For all the people wondering about what constitutes a "school-issued email address" (.edu, .net, .ch, .ac.il, &c), we use the swot gem (https://github.com/leereilly/swot) to automatically identify domains belonging to academic institutions. You can see for yourself what's allowed, even send Pull Requests to include your school if it's missing. Anything that's not automatically accepted still goes through a manual review process.

And as others (johndbritton, jbarnette, jeremymcanally) have pointed out, you can contact us at support@github.com if you're having any trouble.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Why would public repos on github effect my private repo on bitbucket?

Exactly. Roll your private repos on bitbucket and public repos on GitHub for the exposure.

What's the difference between publicity of repos on Bitbucket and Github?

To me, if the task is to see the code, they seem essentially the same — a storages one can checkout from, with a nice-looking web interface to preview the contents.

As for collaboration, DVCS are distributed by their very definition. Sure, clicking on "fork" button on web is easier that "pull; remote add; push" series of commands, but I believe this is completely negligible threshold as compared to actual work.

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