[Rock-dev] Creation of Github accounts

[Sylvain Joyeux]

Some recommendations when creating your github account:

Give at least your real name, even better your place of living and even
even better a picture of you. I know some of you prefer not, but it is very
annoying to not be able to be sure that the username 23498fdnjks actually
is when you look at conversations and commits. (this is pretty close to a
username actually chosen by an actual rock developer :P)

You have to realize that in some software-heavy companies (mainly, small
startups, you know the kind of companies that do robotics these days), your
github account "sells you" as much as your linkedin profile. That is, if
they are able to know it is your github account.

Also: add all the emails that you use to commit (this is how github assigns
commits to you). They are kept private by github, so there is very little
downside, really.

If you are afraid about having your account hijacked, github supports
two-factor authentication.

Sylvain
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