I ask my students to contribute to the opensource project of their choice.
I just did a quick grep through the 238 projects I have in my archives.
Of 238, 7 don’t mention "github.com".
On close inspection, 6 of them are because the student forgot to putt the URL of the project repo.
So, on 238 students, only one managed to contribute to a project which is not hosted on Github.
It is even worse than I thought.
https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html
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