University of Illinois System Shared GitHub Service
All departments and employees within the U of I System now have access to a shared, enterprise wide, GitHub license. The Shared Service provides enterprise-wide GitHub licenses and it includes:
- Licenses for everyone (Staff, Faculty & Students) at all three campuses and hospital
- Unlimited public, private and internal repositories
- Unlimited collaborators
- Unlimited number of Organizations or Teams we create in GitHub
- Pages and Wikis
- Service level agreement for 99.95% monthly uptime
Benefits of the Shared Service are:
- Provide a platform for university collaboration
- Reduce cost for existing users and make GitHub accessible to new users
- Provide a way to promote U of I System open source projects, both internally and to a larger external audience
- Improve security by providing a shared GitHub platform that follows a standard set of security policies
- Contribute to students’ success by allowing them to easily collaborate using GitHub
Getting Started
To request a new org or migrate an existing org under the University enterprise license send an email to GitHub Shared Service Support with the following information:
- Department Name
- Title of the GitHub Organization (#1)
- Preferred GitHub Organization URL (#2)
- Existing URL for the requesting department's website. Used for setting up a verified domain. (#3)
- Organization owner information for two people: Name and NetID
You will then be contacted to discuss next steps in setting up and configuring the org.
Please note that it could take up to two weeks to complete the provisioning and configuration of your organization.
Learn GitHub
Labs and Tutorials
- GitHub Learning Lab (github.com)
- Introduction to GitHub (github.com)
- Learning Git and (github.com)
- Git Essential Training: The Basics (LinkedIn Learning)
Popular GitHub Help Topics
- Setting Up & Managing Orgs & Teams (github.com)
- Setting Repository Visibility (github.com)
- Adding external collaborators (github.com)
- Managing Teams in GitHub (github.com)
- Using Markdown in GitHub (github.com)
- Gazler (github.com)
- Collaboration through git syncing (Atlassian Collaboration Tutorials)
Adding & Removing Users
Refer to the following KB article for information on how to add and remove university users.
GitHub Community Forum
The University of Illinois GitHub Service Community Portal is a public repository created for collaboration. U of I users can:
- Discuss general or University-specific ways for using GitHub
- Contribute to or review user-supported documentation
Other Resources
Questions?
Please submit questions about this project and shared service to githubsupport@uillinois.edu