r/github • u/chickenPoo324 • 3d ago

Discussion Did anyone receive Github's "your code on a CD" CD giveaway?

Back in july Github made a announcement about doing a giveaway limited to 1,000 CDs with your personal repo written on them

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And well considering we are now at the end of august I find it strange there is nothing online at all roughly after july 6th (the supposed end date for the form submission... although the form was pulled a day earlier so yea...) I personally just want to know what the CDs looked like lol

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u/superandomness 3d ago

On the GitHub team here: the group working on it is still actively working on it! It's been a labor of love as people are literally individually printing and burning the discs in their homes because we couldn't get a manufacturer to do it đŸ˜… it'll be awesome eventually!

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u/oN3xM 3d ago

Don't forget to flip them when you fire up the LightScribe ;)

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u/greendookie69 3d ago

Man those were fucking cool in their day

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u/chickenPoo324 3d ago

:O in that case can't wait to see the discs!

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u/mgdmw 3d ago

Hey, that’s pretty cool. Would you be interested in speaking to a journo to make a story about it all? :)

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u/superandomness 2d ago

We'd be down! Maybe when we're closer to the finish line though, heh.

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u/AI_Tonic 3d ago

That’s awesome

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u/Dull_Cartographer497 2d ago

Has anyone here received a shipping email or winner confirmation from GitHub? even that would confirm whether the CDs actually started going out yet

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u/GigAHerZ64 3d ago

Have not received it yet. I did apply for it exactly for that reason - I want to see, how they look.

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u/chickenPoo324 3d ago

welp I guess we just have to keep waiting... still weird github has said literally nothing though...

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u/EncryptedServer 3d ago

Mine is already on a CD, backed up monthly.

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u/Noch_ein_Kamel 3d ago

What If my code exceeds 700MB?

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u/Deep_Ad1959 2d ago

700MB fits almost anything. a full clone of most repos with all history lands in single-digit MB, and you'd need something kernel-sized to overflow a disc. the odd part is the disc outlives most git hosts, so it's a better backup than it sounds.

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u/ResponsibleOven6 3d ago

This has to have been an April Fool's joke