What is it? 🤔
An online graduation ceremony to celebrate graduates of the class of 2020. Join us in walking the stage with your global community. We'll be hearing from special guests, giving out exclusive swag, and highlighting student stories and projects from around the world.
Join the celebration 🎉
Add yourself to the Yearbook by visiting the graduation repository on GitHub. Follow the instructions in the README.md
file to submit a valid pull request. After your request is approved, you will be added to the Yearbook, get highlighted on the stream, and get some exclusive swag — all from the comfort of your home.
Graduation Day 🎓
Don't forget to watch the Livestream!
📆 Monday, June 15th, 2020
⏰ 9:00 PDT | 21:30 IST
📍 GitHub Education Twitch Channel
Steps to enter the Global Celebration 👋
Step-1: Visit the Repo. https://github.com/education/graduation
Step-2: Fork the repository
Step-3: Clone the repository you just forked by doing
git clone https://github.com/{YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME}/graduation.git
Step-4: cd graduation/_data
Step-5: create a new folder and name it with your GitHub username. It should look something like this _data/<YOUR-USERNAME>/
ex: _data/iamdarshshah/
Step-6: Enter the folder you just created and add a profile picture of your choice. Accepted files are png and jpg, should be squared and minimum size 544x544 pixels.
ex: _data/iamdarshshah/iamdarshshah.png
(P.S: Be aware, this picture will be displayed on the yearbook!)
Step-7: Create a markdown file in your folder following the convention {YOUR_USERNAME}.md
.
ex: _data/iamdarshshah/iamdarshshah.md
Step-8: Add your details inside this markdown file. Here is the boilerplate data :
---
name: FULLNAME-OR-NICKNAME # No longer than 18 characters
institution: INSTITUTION-NAME 🚩 # no longer than 58 characters
profile_pic: iamdarshshah.png # Name and extension of your profile picture(ex. iamdarshshah.png)
quote: YOUR-SENIOR-QUOTE # no longer than 100 characters
github_user: YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME
---
Step-9: Follow the steps to Create a Pull Request:
-- git add .
-- git commit -m '{COMMIT_MESSAGE}'
-- git push origin master
Navigate to your Github Repo. you will have an option to create a pull request
Step-10: Fill the form and submit your Pull Request.
Thanks to GitHub Education, Dev Community, and the team for organizing the event and for making our graduation memorable. Be part of this global graduation celebration.❤️
(P.S Don't forget to share this with your friends graduating this year and with your tech community.)🤩
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