UPDATES

July 27th, 2020

Swag has 🎉 shipped 🎉 !!

If you are located in the United States, you will likely receive something in the next week. International shipments will arrive in 2-3 weeks. If your country is not currently accepting international shipments, we will hold onto your swag until shipping restrictions have been lifted. Please be patient as shipping in many parts of the world is currently delayed. 🙌.

Feel free to flex your swag on Twitter and tag us!

Today this repository will be archived.

Congrats grads ✨

💖 @juanpflores, @elisemoe, and the GitHub Education Team

June 13th, 2020 - 8:00 PM PT

Hi Graduates!

We are getting everything ready for the event on Monday and can hardly wait to see you all walk the stage.

A few updates -

• 📚 Yearbook is LIVE. Find your friends and enjoy the quotes. We sure did 😅
• 🛍 Swag has not yet shipped but is in production. Thank you for your patience. We'll post here as things are sent out.
• 📎 Be sure to add graduation to your calendar and follow GitHub Education on Twitch for notifications.

See you Monday at 9 AM Pacific 🎉

❤️ @elisemoe + The GitHub Education Team

May 26th, 2020 - 12:00 AM PT

What a weekend 😅! You all showed up in such an incredible way. We are honored to be a part of your graduation experience. From helping each other submit pull requests to keeping our days entertained with your quotes. Thank you.

If you haven’t yet merged your pull request to the Yearbook but have submitted the shipping form, you still qualify for the tier you submitted. Please continue updating your pull request or submit a new one as you’re able to make changes. We’ll continue to review and get everyone merged before the event on June 15th.

If you have not created a pull request to the Yearbook and would like to join the Class of 2020, you’re welcome to do so! We are no longer accepting swag shipment forms but would love to have you a part of the ceremony. Please create a pull request following the directions on How to join the Class of 2020 below.

Looking for more ways to support the Class of 2020? Here are a few ideas:

👩‍💻 Continue providing feedback on pull requests and to help your classmates get their PR ready to merge. We appreciate your help and love seeing the magic of social coding.

✍️ Head on over to DEV and check out the projects you’ve all been working on this year. Leave a comment, share a story, or learn something new! We’ll be choosing projects to highlight at graduation (Tier 3) based on the ones you like.

📪 Have patience. If you submitted your form before May 26th, 2020 at 12:00 AM PDT, we will be sending you something in the mail. Please understand this takes time. We’re doing our best to get things to you before the event but in some cases shipments may take longer.

See you on June 15th! And in the words of @juanpflores, let’s make this AWESOME.

❤️ @elisemoe + The GitHub Education Team

May 23th, 2020 - 8:00 AM PT

Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. We’ve heard you and we sincerely apologize for the confusion. Submissions will remain open until Monday, May 25th midnight. Unfortunately, we have reached capacity for our Tier 2 swag requests and cannot continue to offer that as of today. However, all submissions are eligible to receive Tier 1 swag and have projects reviewed for the ceremony. Submit your projects, join the yearbook, and participate in the event!

The swag request form link has changed.

❤️ The GitHub Education Team

New submissions to the year book are now closed (2:30 PM PDT). Those who have already submitted a pull request, is on review or pending changes you can still get added to the yearbook by submitted those changes in the pull request you already have (without creating a new PR). Don’t worry, you can still attend the event! git remote < graduation > is happening on June 15th 9:00 PDT | 21:30 IST at twitch.tv/githubeducation 🥳 🎓

You all have been incredible offering to help review, supporting each other in contributing to the graduation repository, and coming up with the most creative yearbook quotes 😂 We are blown away by the kindness of our community 🙌 and can’t wait to celebrate with all of you wonderful humans

❤️ The GitHub Education Team

This repository contains the yearbook of the $ git remote < graduation > event. By issuing a pull request to this repository, you can request to be added to the Class of 2020.

Privacy Notice 👀

Consider that all the information that you add to this repository will be publicly available.

• If you don't feel comfortable with displaying your full name, you can include a short name or nickname instead.
• If you don't want to add a profile picture to the yearbook, you can use your university crest, or build an octocat and use it as your avatar instead.

Tiers 🏆

Tiers reward the effort graduates make for this celebration. By adding yourself to the yearbook and writing a post on DEV, you will get access to extra benefits. Make sure you submit your pull request before midnight Monday, May 25th PDT.

• Tier 1 ✉: Add yourself to the Yearbook by submitting a pull request to this repository and filling the swag shipping form.

• Tier 2 🛍: Follow the steps on Tier 1 and write a post on DEV about a project you've built while being a student. You can use this template to get started!

• Tier 3 🏅: The best project posts on DEV will be highlighted live on stream during the graduation.

Who can apply 📝

Any higher education student that has or will graduate in 2020 can apply to the yearbook.

• Non-Traditional Education (Bootcamps, Codecamps, Hacker Schools, etc)
• High School Graduates
• College Graduates
• Master's Graduates
• Ph.D. Graduates

How to join the Class of 2020

Replace <YOUR-USERNAME> with your GitHub username in this guide.

1. Create the folder _data/YOUR-USERNAME/

Fork this repository, create a new folder inside the _data folder, and name it with your username. It should look something like this _data/<YOUR-USERNAME>/. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/

2. Add your profile picture to the folder

Enter the folder you just created and add a profile picture of your choice. Accepted files are png and jpg, should be squared and minimum size 544x544 pixels. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/mona.png

Be aware, this picture will be displayed on the yearbook!

3. Add your profile information

Create a markdown file in your folder following the convention <YOUR-USERNAME>.md. Ex.

_data/MonaTheOctocat/MonaTheOctocat.md

Copy the next template into your file, delete the boilerplate data and fill the information with yours.

---
name: FULLNAME-OR-NICKNAME # No longer than 28 characters
institution: INSTITUTION-NAME 🚩 # no longer than 58 characters
profile_pic: mona.png # Name and extension of your profile picture(ex. mona.png) The picture must be squared and 544px on width and height.
quote: YOUR-SENIOR-QUOTE # no longer than 100 characters, avoid using quotes(") to guarantee the format remains the same.
github_user: YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME
---

Do not use special characters in the template above.

4. Form & Pull Request

Fill a swag shipment form and submit your Pull Request

Go through the checklist on the pull request template to guarantee your submission is valid. The GitHub Education team will review your application, approve and merge your submission if everything is correct. Otherwise, you will get notified of the changes requested on the pull request comment section.

Graduation Day 🎓

Don't forget to watch the livestream!

• 📆 Monday, June 15th 2020
• ⏰ 9:00 PDT | 21:30 IST
• 📍 GitHub Education Twitch Channel
• 📎 Add the event to your calendar.