On 21 May 2014 08:44, Andrew McNab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 21 May 2014, at 09:28, Tom Whyntie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I see there's a GridPP Organization account on GitHub:
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>> https://github.com/gridpp
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>> 1) Does anyone know who manages this?
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> I registered it last year but ended up creating a vacproject account instead (which is now in use.)
>
> The GridPP one hasn’t been used for anything yet. It would be good to use it if that helps anyone.
>
> More and more projects are appearing on GitHub. Last week we decided to migrate LHCbDIRAC there too. As well as the technical aspects, some employers ask for GitHub history so it can be useful for students and postdocs to have accumulated some GitHub activity.
>
We're using BitBucket here at Glasgow for the same thing (it has a
similar Academic pricing policy, but also allows you to have more
private repos by default, so it's actually slightly nicer).
>> 2) Can I join it please? I'm twhyntie
>
> Done.
>
>> Related: GitHub are now offering free upgrades for academic users:
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>> https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new
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>> See https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science for more
>> info (post by @arfon of Galaxy Zoo).
>
> A (free!) paid account would give us private repositories, which might be useful for some things. I think all the other features are the same between free and paid accounts.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
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> Dr Andrew McNab, High Energy Physics,
> University of Manchester, UK, M13 9PL.
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