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by krstck 3684 days ago
> At Bay Area prices isn't that about 5 minutes of developer pay per month?

I work for an academic nonprofit. Asking to spend any money is like pulling teeth, and any purchase I make has to go through many layers of bureaucracy who don't understand or care what I do and have no incentive to make my life easier. I don't want to leave Github, but now I have to, because I just won't get the approval to spend hundreds a year. But I know that's nothing to Bay Area companies, so the rest of us will just go kick rocks or something.
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WillAbides 3684 days ago
> I don't want to leave Github, but now I have to, because I just won't get the approval to spend ~100's a month.

No you don't have to leave GitHub now. GitHub isn't forcing existing customers onto the new pricing, and it says in the post that if that changes at least 12 months notice will be given.

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StevePerkins 3684 days ago
What announcement are you reading? It states very clearly that this is the new pricing model, period.

Yes, existing customers have a 12-month grace period before they're impacted by a price change... but that clock just started ticking. There isn't an indefinite opt-out for this model change.

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WillAbides 3684 days ago
I'm looking at this one [0]. Specifically this item in the FAQ:

> Will GitHub force me to move to per-user pricing after 12 months?

> No. At this time we are not enforcing a timeline to move and if in the future we do decide to set a timeline we are committing to giving you at least 12 months.

[0] https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-r...

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msbarnett 3684 days ago
> Yes, existing customers have a 12-month grace period before they're impacted by a price change... but that clock just started ticking

"Will GitHub force me to move to per-user pricing after 12 months?

No. At this time we are not enforcing a timeline to move and if in the future we do decide to set a timeline we are committing to giving you at least 12 months."

So you have an indefinite period of time + 12 months, not a hard 12 months starting now.

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threatofrain 3684 days ago
Are you guys going through the nonprofit or the academics pricing?
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krstck 3684 days ago
Their nonprofit accounts are designed for "nonacademic" orgs. If there's an account type that's applicable to university research (not just students) then I'd be thrilled.
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WillAbides 3684 days ago
Check the bottom of this page [0] and prepare to be thrilled.

[0] https://education.github.com/

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stonedge 3684 days ago
This is only for the teaching/student aspect of academia. There's the whole business side of academia which is still a non-profit, still doesn't have any money, but for which the academic stuff doesn't apply.
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stevenbedrick 3684 days ago
Very well-put.

Furthermore, Github's "Education" site doesn't actually say _what_ the acadmic pricing plans are like, just that you can "ask for a discount".

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rhodysurf 3684 days ago
They gave us free private repos for our organization when we were an academic research team building robots. It doesn't hurt to try.
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