[TOS] GitHub adds educational accounts

[C. Titus Brown]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:43:42AM -0500, Nicholas Whittier wrote:
> https://github.com/edu
> 
> GitHub now has educational accounts (free for students, free for
> teachers/student groups, discount for educational administrators).  I think
> this is something to keep in mind for events targeting distributed activity
> and/or integrating efforts with existent projects that may already be using
> github.

Great news!

> I'm not sure we're there yet, but in addition to setting up a privately
> hosted Git repository, it seems like TOS could benefit from having a github
> account as well.  The workflows pertaining to each would be quite similar,
> but I find that they are distinct enough to be intimidating to new VCS
> users.

I'm curious, how are the workflows different?

thanks,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu