> GitHub now has educational accounts (free for students, free for > teachers/student groups, discount for educational administrators).
Ooh! Thanks for the heads-up. A few notes for those looking into infra - not so much an opinion or action recommendation as "useful quick things I looked up so you don't have to": * open source projects can get public repositories for free on github already; the advantage of these edu accounts is that they let you create private repositories (you'd usually have to pay for an account with this functionality). * github itself isn't FOSS - this will matter to some people here, myself included - but I think I'd personally be under "strong preference" rather than "hard requirement" here. (If the non-FOSS product is better, I would be fine with using it and then sending the best FOSS competitor a note saying "hey, here are the things that are keeping us from using you," maybe helping them with budget for a hackathon to implement some stuff on the list, and re-evaluating in a year or so.) * Its competitor gitorious is FOSS - there are some feature tradeoffs between the two; gitorious has nice merge request functionality etc, but private repos seems easier on github (I'm unclear whether it exists in gitorious - I think "no" but found some patches for it under review for merging - we could ask the devs) and I know that's important for this group. * Either way, I'm going to need a scratch-test git repository (public is ok) for the POSSE remote module on version control, and would like to be able to use some pretty public web service for it... and I'll need it before the start of August. Which I suspect may coincide with the timeline for when professors here would need theirs. My fallback here is "use gitorious/github's public repo feature." --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
