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Work Email Registration #8

Open ianjkalin opened 9 years ago

ianjkalin commented 9 years ago

Regarding:

"You must register with your work email, which should be independent from any personal account you may have on Github."

From @benbalter:

"We actually suggest the opposite in the best-practices peer group. (https://government-community.githubapp.com/government/best-practices/blob/master/docs/account-management.md#requiring-users-to-establish-purpose-specific-accounts) Beyond making things harder for developers in terms of Git configuration and SSH keys, unlike say, Twitter, where it’s normal to have multiple accounts, GitHub allows you to have multiple email addresses, and be associated with multiple organizations, automatically disambiguating your use, depending on what context your in. You may also want to clarify the difference between an organization account and an individual account. Humans should have one user account, bureaus should have an organization account (which you will need a user account to create), of which that user is a member.

mikecharles commented 9 years ago

Agreed. This is how I set my account up.

afeld commented 6 years ago

Also, the former is technically against the GitHub Terms of Service:

One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free [User] Account

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#3-account-requirements

(Also, 👋 from a new developer under Census!)