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Free spaces for student projects - how to get them

Posted by Andy Singleton on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 @ 08:43 AM
 

We will provide free scholarships for student projects.  If you have a non-commercial student project, here is how to sign up.

You will add your student space to our "Student Projects" portfolio.  Our customer service team will review it and pay for it.  You can then run it, or continue to run it, as either private or public.  Please make sure it is a non-commercial student project, and remove it when you are finished.

  • Go to the Admin panel, and select tools, and find the Member tool.  Press the Add button.
  • On the Member tool page, enter the join code "studentproject" and submit.
  • If you want to write us a message, write in one of the form fields on the bottom.

Tell your school before next semester.  Next semester, you will need to get projects from your school.  We need to distribute the administration. We will distribute portfolios to universities, and they will manage their own lists of student projects.  Please tell your professors about this, so that they can get their portfolio spaces.  They should send us a message at info@assembla.com, or create a space to hold the student projects and add the portfolio tool, and then add themselves to our student portfolio with the instructions above.

I hope that this will be the last administrative announcement before we can get back to our regularly scheduled programming about accelerationg software development.

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I get the error "The operation failed." when I attempt to add the Member tool. My space's URL name is nhs_botball_2009 . My browser is IE7. Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks, Jeremy Rand

posted @ Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:57 PM by Jeremy Rand


Today it worked fine for me.

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 2:53 PM by Joao C. Mendonca


Still not working for me. -Jeremy Rand

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 4:00 PM by Jeremy Rand


Thank you for setting this up.  
 
Do you have an estimate of how long it will take for spaces to be approved?  
 
Thanks 
-David

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 4:21 PM by David


Today it worked fine for me. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091618 Firefox/3.0.2

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 5:13 PM by Joao C. Mendonca


I just tried again with IE7 and Firefox 3.0.3... no luck with either of them, I still get the "The operation failed" message. Any idea what's wrong?

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 6:56 PM by Jeremy Rand


I would like to congratulate the team leader of this site. To all members, it is good to continue sharing the ideas which are good for developing our working relationship.

posted @ Saturday, October 25, 2008 7:13 AM by Kioko


Hey Andy, this sounds really nice. 
 
So this will be normal "Private / Professional plan" spaces? Can you tell us how you check if these are student projects? How can we, as students, make your work easier like adding a proper description of the space?  
 
- Jan

posted @ Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:48 AM by Jan


Thanks for such a great service!

posted @ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:57 AM by Jonathan


I just applied with one of my student projects. Everything worked fine. I used on of the three fields for a little description, perhaps this could be improved a little - but that's a minor thing.

posted @ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:15 AM by Jan


I tried again on Tuesday, it worked this time. Thanks.

posted @ Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:36 PM by Jeremy Rand


It worked for me today. Hope Assembla is granting me a free repository for my diploma thesis.

posted @ Monday, November 03, 2008 2:36 PM by Christoph


I've been trying to get this changed to a student site. Tried following the directions and see no change or way to make ths private again. What's up?

posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:43 AM by bob


Hi! I alredy followed the instruction to set our project tu a student project but still got an email with the request to pay for the assembal account, otherwise it would be set to read only. Did I make a mistake? 
 
Tom

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:14 AM by Thomas Winkler


No, you did not do anything incorrect. Emails were sent to owners of all current not supported configurations. As Andy said, we have not yet review the spaces in the Portfolio. That means for our system all your spaces still have not supported configurations.

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:22 AM by Sergio Romano


Hi! 
I`ve been using Assembla for 2 school projecs and I would to use it in the future. 
 
Could you tell more specific how you check is project student project or not?

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:33 AM by Student


Hi, I've been using Assembla for my phd thesis which is now half way through. I cannot make it public until it's submitted.  
 
I followed the instructions above but still got the email about upgrading. 
 
Thanks for the great service so far - hope i can keep on using it.

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:26 PM by baptiste


And where is this "student list"? any url? thanks!

posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:10 PM by Joao C. Mendonca


I've created a new space and added it to the portfolio. I'm not sure what to do to get the upgrade active so that I can make the space private. It needs to be private to avoid other student project groups from viewing our code.

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2008 5:22 PM by Mark Janssen


Hi! 
I have the same problem as some of the others. Our space was added to the portfolio of student projects, but it still can't be made private. Can you please help us soon? We're already working on our project. Thank you!! 
Best regards!

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2008 2:03 PM by Georg Holz


Do you have a list of contacts at each university that will be managing the university portfolios? How will we know who to contact at our school to get a student project space?

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2008 3:30 PM by Shawn


I have the same issue along with various others above, which is that I filled out the portfolio member page and submitted it, but still can't convert from 'free' to 'private'. Please let me know if I can help in any way. Thanks for the hard work assembla!

posted @ Monday, November 10, 2008 6:15 PM by Greg


I will post again Andy's comment. As he said, the basic principle is that we don't change the permissions. This causes a problem until we finish our code to review the spaces for new student spaces but at least gives support to students projects that were hosted before the subscription changes. Support will only be available until the end of this semester, you need tell your school/professor/universities if you think you will need a space for next semesters. 
 
Your space will keep the status that it had - public or private - until we go through the list and mark it as sponsored "private/professional". Then you will be able to edit the permissions to switch from public to private.  
 
The basic principle is that we don't change the permissions.  
 
I am waiting to apply the private/professional subscriptions in a batch. We have not done it yet.  
 
I can see that this delay will cause a problem for new student projects that get created as public. We will try to get it done this week. There is some programming. We need to add a feature to our portfolio tab that allows us to mark spaces as paid, so we are currently gated by that.

posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:49 AM by Sergio Romano


Hi, 
Any idea how long the turn around time is for the space conversions to student project? Will we be notified once its been changed over?

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2008 2:31 AM by David Chung


I am not able to join the member studentproject to my space, because he doesn't exsist. 
Can anyone help me? 
Thomas

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2008 8:17 AM by Thomas Haden


I'm awfully sorry. Didn't read the instructions correctly.

posted @ Monday, November 17, 2008 8:27 AM by Thomas Haden


yea. is very good idea , we thnx you , the Word will go more more fast to techno if we have you for sponsors, thanks again  
by MakiS 

posted @ Friday, January 02, 2009 12:38 PM by kataras


My one private project is finished, so I'd be okay if it stayed read-only forever. Is that okay? 
 
If not, is there I way I can export my SVN version history? Or a way to remove the non-free works of others I posted in the repository (they are the only thing that keeps me from making the space public)?

posted @ Friday, January 02, 2009 4:38 PM by ke


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posted @ Friday, January 09, 2009 8:04 AM by Tonige


Thx for this possibility to finish our project.  
 
greeting mike

posted @ Friday, January 23, 2009 12:05 PM by Mike


Are you still upgrading student spaces? I recently set one up which hasn't been upgraded.

posted @ Monday, January 26, 2009 5:08 AM by James


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