{"id":5250,"date":"2018-09-05T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2018-09-05T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:11:06","slug":"github-opportunities-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/09\/05\/github-opportunities-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Opportunities for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub, the company that provides web hosting for version control software, offers several services and programs of interest to students.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.github.com\/pack\">GitHub Student Developer Pack<\/a>\u00a0provides students free access or credits for a variety of online services including GitHub (unlimited private repositories), Digital Ocean ($50 credit), and Stripe (no transaction fees on first $1000 processed).<\/p>\n<p>GitHub also <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.github.com\/2018-08-31-campus-experts-is-back\/\">recently announced an opportunity<\/a> for students to become a GitHub Campus Expert.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a GitHub Campus Expert, you will receive training and mentorship from GitHub employees, opportunities to participate in exclusive events, and support to help you grow the developer community at your school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.github.com\/students\/experts\">education.github.com\/students\/experts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the services the GitHub provides, Swarthmore has a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.swarthmore.edu\">GitHub Enterprise service<\/a> available to all college community members.\u00a0 For more information, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu:8443\/display\/ITSDOCS\/GitHub+Enterprise\">GitHub Enterprise Help Documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub, the company that provides web hosting for version control software, offers several services and programs of interest to students. The\u00a0GitHub Student Developer Pack\u00a0provides students free access or credits for a variety of online services including GitHub (unlimited private repositories), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/09\/05\/github-opportunities-for-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitHub Opportunities for Students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,114],"tags":[90,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-5250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-students","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-github","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Octocat.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}