Free Private Repositories on GitHub for FIRST Teams
 

We love FIRST robotics and want to let you know that your teams are eligible to receive free private repositories on GitHub as part of our Education program.

You can request the discount (select "student organization") here: http://github.com/edu

If there's anything else we can do to help out, please get in touch with me directly: jdb at github dot com.

Cheers,
John Britton

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Thank you so much. That is really cool of you guys.

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This is really cool. We will be sure to utilize this offer.
Thanks.

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We love GitHub! Thanks for your support of FIRST, great to see you here on Chief Delphi!

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That's fantastic! We've been looking into ways to use Git to manage LabVIEW projects with GitHub (http://github.com/Team2337). We actually paid for a private repo during build season, but it fell out of use. This will definitely help us the second time around!

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I've sent in an email.

Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.

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Thanks GitHub! <3

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Thanks github! We are planning on finally integrating a source control system into our development process this year. Maybe I will nab an Octocat sticker to put on our robot this year :)

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This is awesome :ahh: Thank you :D

Just to pose a question, how many teams use Github as an organization account vs as a regular account? Does making our team account an organization introduce any new management difficulties we should be aware of? I ask only because our team's GH account is still a 'personal' acocunt.

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When you make an organization, you add individual users to your organization. Anyone in your organization can create repos and commit to repos. I would recommend you have your team working on the code get their own personal accounts and join your organization.

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Thanks John / GitHub!

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You're welcome!

I'd really appreciate it if you'd help spread the word to other FIRST teams. I'd love to get in touch with some of the competition organizers so that they can make sure everyone knows about this.

I'd recommend you use an organization, it allows you to manage permissions for different members and you can easily pass control of the code on to new team members year after year.

We love robots, I'm sure the other GitHubbers would love to see what you build.

If you include a mailing address when you request your organization I'll gladly send you some stickers.

Cheers,
John

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This is awesome!!!!

Thanks github!

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This just made my day! Thanks so much GitHub

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Thank you for making this available to teams.

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Awesome news! I was hoping that such a solution would become available. I was looking for this when trying to write some tutorials, but had difficulty recommending a single host. This is definitely getting some higher priority now. Thanks guys.

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Awesome! We have lots of good info up on https://help.github.com and http://git-scm.com that you could easily steal and distill down to a nice tutorial.

I'm really excited to work with John to offer you all some resources this year. I did FIRST in varying capacities from 2002 until 2006 and then mentored a FLL team in 2010. So, I'll be around to answer any Git, GitHub, web development, etc. questions any of you might have.

Looking forward to seeing any tutorials you produce! Drop me a message with a link if you get a chance. :)

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This is awesome! This is also good for FTC teams using RobotC. I wrote up a tutorial on Git for FTC on the official FTC forum (http://ftcforum.usfirst.org/showthre...-RobotC-in-FTC), so if anyone wants to read it, I bet it would be helpful for FRC teams, too.

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Did you only write it for the command-line version? Have you also written one on something like TortoiseGIT?
I don't know about CAD files, but LabVIEW files can be compared, just like text files. (You just need to use the compare app)

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For those who aren't familiar with Git/Github, here's a really good introduction to the workflow

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1877040

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Hmm... Maybe I'm impatient, but I requested an account (free public) as described and noted in the comments that this is for an FRC team. I also emailed jdb. No response and my organization account (FRC2530) is still free/public.

Should my account get upgraded now, or have I not followed the correct process ?

Big thanks to GitHub for providing this for the teams. GitHub is a great model for this purpose, since it allow full source control capabilities while at competitions when you have no network connection.

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Hm, I don't see a ticket for you in our help system. Email me (jeremy@github) and I'll take care of it! :)

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Fixed already! Thanks.

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I just wanted to pop in here and say good luck to all the teams this year. The response to this thread has been amazing. I've seen and approved tons of requests from FIRST teams.

Sorry if there's a little bit of lag time between the request and having the discount applied. I've automated as much of it as I can, but there's still some manual review involved.

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Thank you GitHub :)

I wanted to vote for this thread to get a sticky, this is a great donation, I'd hate to see teams go unaware of the opportunity to use such a great tool.

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We just finished up a brand new FIRSTocat design, check it out in the Octodex.

We've got these as die-cut stickers for teams using GitHub to stick on their bots (and human team members).

If you'd like some for your team send an email to education@support.github.com with your shipping address and the number of people on your team.

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Very nice.. Thank you!

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I emailed and Elizabeth responded saying these stickers were not available.