Student pack requesting full name in github username #57851
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You only need to update your github profile name to your real world name. Since you are not comfortable sharing your name. You can change your name to real name then apply for github student pack and then change it later on (after they approved your request). |
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Hey could you apply for it ? |
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But that's an overly long time, and since my Github account is kinda linked to other profiles, it's likely that someone may be able to see it since for me it took like 9 days, is there any other solution or should I give up on this? |
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I also have the same issue. That was a, in my opinion a very unnecessary change to the verification process. |
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You can change the name only to receive the package. |
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You can use the link below: https://support.github.com/features/education |
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I created a ticket there at wednesday. How long is the average wait time? Can i somehow accelerate that? Thank you for your help already 😄 |
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It may take up to a week. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to speed it up 💔 |
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Thank you for your help anyway. I wish you a great day/night |
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Any update ? @FlawlessDeveloper |
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to the people suggesting you can change your name only for a short time "up to a week" I think you are failing to recognize the issue here. Once someone has exposed their name, it's exposed. Any party that they didn't want to see it has had up to a week to see it. Imagine, for example, you're a woman in a community where it's acceptable to violently beat women for trying to educate themselves. Would you say that forcing those people to expose themselves is reasonable? Would it be reasonable to ask people being persecuted by governments for daring to speak out about them to expose themselves publicly? What about women who have had to hide themselves from stalkers who ignore restraining orders? Real name verification may be required to verify academic affiliation but PUBLIC exposure of that name is not. |
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Totally agree, and since we have Web Archive now, so we don't know is it really just a week or not. |
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You are correct, this is an extreme violation of ones desire to keep their online and irl lives separate and there is absolutely no reason for GitHub to require you to expose this information publicly. It's also concerning that they didn't respond to this question in any meaningful way. |
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Since I'm a student at a school participating in the GitHub Education program since this year, I wanted to apply there and got exactly the same issue. As the op wrote, I am uncomfortable exposing my full name publicly on my profile (even its only for a few days). This is an extreme violation of privacy rights and I can't understand why this is a requirement for the application process. There would be several other solutions GitHub could've made the verification of the name more privacy friendly like:
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Well... I did what the form asked me for, including logging in and logging out, and it still says the same! |
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I've given up since I can't hide my real name while applying the pack kinda... dumb |
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Yeah I've given up a long time ago. |
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Hi everyone,
Hello!
Upon applying for the GitHub student package, a few days passed and I received the message that I must change my GitHub username to my real life name, which is something I am really not comfortable with, what should I do?
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